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Photographic 

ScMices 

Corporation 


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WIISTIR,N.V.  MSM 

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v\ 


CIHM/ICMH 


Series. 


CIHM/ICMH 
Collection  de 


Canadian  Institute  for  Historical  IMicrorei:  i-oductions  /  Institut  Canadian  da  microraproductions  liistoriquaa 


^\ 


Tachnical  and  BiblioorapMc  NotM/Notas  tachniquaa  at  MMiographiquaa 


Tha  Inttituta  has  anamptad  to  obtain  tha  bast 
original  copy  availabia  for  filming.  Faaturaa  of  this 
copy  which  may  ba  bibliographicaNy  unlqua. 
which  may  altar  any  of  tha  imagas  in  tha 
raproduction,  or  which  may  significantly  changa 
tha  usual  mathod  of  filming,  ara  chaekad  balow. 


SColourad  covars/ 
Couvartura  da  couiaur 


Fyl    Covars  damagad/ 


D 


0 


D 


D 


n 


Couvartura  andommagAa 


Covars  restorad  and/or  laminatad/ 
Couvartura  rastaurAa  at/ou  palliculAa 


I      I    Covar  titia  missing/ 


Le  titra  da  couvartura  manqua 


nColourad  maps/ 
Cartas  gAographiquas  an  couiaur 


Coloured  Inic  (i.a.  othar  than  blua  or  blaciti/ 
Encra  da  couiaur  (i.a.  autra  qua  blaua  ou  noira) 


r~~|   Colourad  platas  and/or  illustrations/ 


Planchas  at/ou  illustrations  an  couiaur 


Bound  with  other  matarial/ 
RaliA  avac  d'autras  documants 


r~7|    Tight  binding  may  causa  shadows  or  distortion 


along  intarior  margin/ 

La  r»  liure  sarr^e  paut  causar  da  I'ombra  ou  da  la 

distortion  la  long  da  la  marga  intAriaura 

Blank  laavas  addad  during  rastoration  may 
appaar  within  tha  taxt.  Whanavar  possibia,  thasa 
hava  baan  omittad  from  filming/ 
II  sa  paut  qua  cartainas  pagas  blanchas  aJoutAas 
lors  d'una  rastauration  apparaissant  dans  la  taxta, 
mais,  lorsqua  cala  4tait  possibia,  cas  pagas  n'ont 
pas  *t4  filmias. 

Additional  commants:/ 
Commantairas  supplAmantairas; 


L'institut  a  microf  Nmi  la  maiNaur  axamplaira 
qu'il  lui  a  4tA  poaaiWa  da  sa  procurar.  Las  details 
da  cat  axamplaira  qui  sont  paut-Atra  uniquas  du 
point  da  vua  bibliographiqua.  qui  pauvant  modif iar 
una  imaga  raproduita,  ou  qui  pauvant  axigar  una 
modification  dans  la  mithoda  normala  da  f ilmaga 
sont  indiquis  ci-dassous. 


D 
Q 

D 
0 
D 
0 
D 
D 
D 
0 


Colourad  pagas/ 
Pagaa  da  couiaur 

Pagas  damagad/ 
Pagas  andommag^as 

Pagas  rastorad  and/or  laminatad/ 
Pagas  rastaurAas  at/ou  palliculAas 

Pagas  discoiourad.  stainad  or  foxad/ 
Pagas  dAcolorAas,  tachatAas  ou  piqutes 

Pagas  datachad/ 
Pagas  dAtachtes 

Showthrough/ 
Transparanca 

Quality  of  print  varias/ 
QualitA  inAgala  da  I'imprassion 

Includas  supplamantary  matarial/ 
Comprand  du  material  supplAmantaira 

Only  adition  availabia/ 
Saula  Mition  disponibia 

Pagas  wholly  or  partially  obscured  by  arrata 
slips,  tissuas,  ate,  hava  baan  rafilmad  to 
ansura  tha  bast  possibia  imaga/ 
Las  pagas  totalamant  ou  partiallamant 
obscurcias  par  un  fauiilat  d'arrata.  una  palura. 
ate.  ont  M  filmtes  i  nouvaau  da  fapon  i 
obtanir  la  maillaura  imaga  possibia. 


Tha 
toti 


Tha 


oft 
film 


Orit 
bag 


sion 
oth< 
first 
sion 
or 


Tha 
ahal 
TINI 
whi( 

Mai: 

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bagi 
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raqu 
mat 


This  itam  is  f  ilmad  at  tha  reduction  ratio  chaekad  balow/ 

Ca  document  est  film*  au  taux  da  reduction  indiqu*  ci-dassous. 


10X 

14X 

18X 

22X 

MX 

aox 

"7 

12X 

16X 

20X 

a4x 

2SX 

32X 

Th«  eof>y  filmwi  her*  ha*  bwm  raprodiic«d  thanka 
to  tha  ganaroaity  of: 


L'axamplaira  f  ilm4  f  ut  raproduit  grica  A  la 
0An4roaitA  da: 


UilvmM  ds  Monirad 


uniMTMra  osiNoniraM 


Tha  imagaa  appaaring  hara  ara  tha  baat  quality 
poaalbia  conaMaring  tha  condition  and  lagibillty 
of  tha  original  eofiy  and  in  kaaping  with  tha 
filming  contract  spaciflcatlons. 


Original  copiaa  in  printad  papar  covara  ara  filmad 
baginning  with  tha  front  covar  and  anding  on 
tha  last  paga  with  a  printad  or  lllustratad  impraa- 
sion.  or  tha  bacic  covar  whan  appropriata.  All 
othar  original  copies  ara  filmad  baginning  on  tha 
first  paga  with  a  printad  or  lllustratad  impras- 
sion,  and  anding  on  tha  laat  paga  with  a  printad 
or  lllustratad  impraaslon. 


Tha  last  racordad  frama  on  aach  microficha 
shall  contain  tita  symbol  — ^  (moaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  tha  symbol  ▼  (moaning  "END"), 
whichavar  appiias. 


Las  imagas  suivantas  ont  4t4  raproduitas  avac  la 
plus  grand  soin,  compta  tanu  da  la  condition  at 
da  la  nattat*  da  l'axamplaira  film*,  at  an 
conformity  avac  las  conditions  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 

Las  axampiairas  originaux  dont  la  couvartura  wi 
papiar  ast  ImprimAa  sont  fiimis  an  commandant 
par  la  pramlar  plat  at  an  tarminant  soit  par  la 
darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainta 
d'imprasslon  ou  d'illustration,  soit  par  la  second 
plat,  salon  la  cas.  Tous  las  autras  axampiairas 
originaux  sont  fiimAs  an  commanpant  par  la 
pramlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  amprainta 
d'imprasslon  ou  d'illustration  at  •n  tarminant  par 
la  darnlAra  paga  qui  comporta  una  talla 
amprainta. 

Un  das  symbdas  suivants  apparattra  sur  la 
darnlAra  imaga  da  chaqua  microficha,  salon  la 
cas:  la  symbols  — ►  signifia  "A  8UIVRE  ",  la 
symbols  ▼  signifia  "FIN". 


IMaps,  platas,  charts,  ate,  may  ba  filmad  at 
diffarant  raductlon  ratios.  Thosa  too  larga  to  ba 
antiraly  included  in  ona  axposura  ara  filmad 
baginning  In  tha  uppar  laft  hand  cornar,  laft  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  as  many  frames  as 
required.  The  following  diagrams  illustrate  the 
method: 


Les  cartes,  plenches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  Atre 
fiimAs  i  dee  taux  da  reduction  diff Arents. 
Lorsque  ie  document  est  trop  grend  pour  Atre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  clichA,  il  est  fiimA  A  partir 
da  I'angle  supArieur  gauche,  de  gauclie  A  droite, 
et  de  haut  an  has,  en  prenant  la  nombre 
d'Images  nAcessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
lliustrant  la  mAthode. 


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PAPAL  IDOLATRY 


BY 


REV.  C  CHINIOUY. 


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AUTHOR  OF 

"FIFTY  YEARS  IN  THE  CHURCH  OF  ROME." 

•THE  PRIEST,  THE  WOMAN.  AND  THE 

CONFESSIONAL."  ETC. 


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77  ^79  3flcteon  Street, 


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Bibllotheque 
VICTOR  MORIN 

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BY  FATHER  CHINIQUY. 


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papal  Idolatry. 


AN  EXPOSURE 


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Dognia  of  Ti<Bn$ub^tei|lialion 

AND  M ABIOLATRY. 


DEDICATED  TO 


Cardinal  Gibbons. 


OF  BALTIMORE.  Md. 


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WITH 

'THE  GOD  OF  ROME  EATEN    BY  A  RAT,"  "TK^  REASONS 

WHY    WE    MUST  PUT  OUR   TRUST  IN  JEf      '   A.LONE, 

AND  NOT  INVOKE  MARY,"  AND  "THE  Rl    v SONS 

WHY  I  WILL   NEVER    RETURN  TO  THE 

CHURCH  OF  ROME." 


BY 


REV.  CHARLES  CHINIQUY, 


CHICAGO: 
ADAM  CRAIG,  Publisher,  77-79  Jackson  Street. 

1889. 


TO 


HIS  EMINENCE  THE  CARDINAL. 


-to-^fn^ 


As  you  are  the  hi§hest  dignitary  of  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  on  this  Continent  of  America,  I  have  thought  it  was 
my  duty  to  dedicate  to  you  this  neiv  edition  of  Papal 
Idolatry,  with  the  hope  that,  by  the  mercy  of  God,  its  perusal 
would  Ju'lp  to  enlighten  yoitr  mind,  and  change  your  Jieart. 

Truly  yours, 

C.  CHimQUr. 

St.  Anne,  Kankakee  Co.,  111.,  Jamiary,  1S90. 


COl'YKKiHT  I88!t. 
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PAPAL  IDOLATRY. 


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Roman  Catholic 
e  thought  it  was 
lition  of  Papal 
'  God,  its  perusal 
mge  your  Jieart. 

CHTmQUr. 


KIKST  CONSIUEKATION. 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION  IS  IDOLATRY. 

In  order  that  both  Protestants  and  Roman  Catholics  may 
understand  that  we  are  perfectly  correct  when  we  say  that  the 
Church  of  Rome  makes  a  god  of  a  wafer,  and  is,  in  consequence, 
an  idolatrous  church,  I  copy  here  the  blasphemous  decrees  of  the 
Council  of  Trent. 

Council  of  Trent,  Holy  Sacrament  of  the  Eucharist. 

Canon  I.  "If  any  shall  deny  that  in  the  Sacrament  of  the  mcst  holy 
Eucharist,  there  i «  contained  truly,  really,  and  substantially  the  body  and 
blood,  together  with  the  soul  and  divinity  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  but  shall 
say  that  he  is  only  in  it  in  sign  or  figure,  or  power,  let  him  be  accursed" 

Canon  IL  "If  any  man  shall  say  that  in  the  Sacrament  of  the  most  holy 
Eucharist,  there  remains  the  substance  of  bread  and  wine,  together  with  the 
body  and  blood  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  shall  deny  that  wonderful  and 
remarkable  conversion  of  the  whole  substance  of  the  bread  into  the  body  and 
the  whole  substance  of  the  wine  into  the  blood,  while  only  the  appearance  of 
bread  and  wine  remains,  which  conversion  the  Catholic  Church  most  aptly 
calls  Transubstantiation,  let  him  be  accursed." 

Cancn  VI.  "If  any  man  shall  say,  that  in  the  holy  sacrament  of  the 
Eucharist,  Christ  the  only  begotten  Son  of  God,  ii  not  to  be  adored,  and  that 
outwardly  with  the  worship  of  Latria,  and  therefore  that  he  ougt4  neither  to 
be  venerated  by  any  especial  festive  celebration,  nor  carried  solemnly  about 
in  processions,  according  to  the  universal  and  laudable  rite  and  custom  of 
the  Church,  or  that  he  ought  not  publicly  to  be  exhibited  to  the  people  that 
he  may  be  worshipped,  and  that  the  worshippers  of  him  are  idolaters,  let  him 
be  accursed." 

Canon  VIII.  "If  any  one  shall  say,  that  Christ,  as  exhibited  in  the  Eu- 
charist, is  only  spiritually  eaten,  and  not  also  sacramentally  and  really,  let 
him  be  accursed  " 

The  Catechism  of  the  Council  of  Trent  speaks  still  more 
clearly  and  says: — 

"The  Pastors  will  explain  that  In  the  holy  Eucharist  (the  consecrated 
wafer)  the  true  body  of  Jesus  Christ  is  contained  with  all  that  constitutes  a 
bodv  and  belongs  to  it,  such  as  the  boties  and  nerves,  and  that  is  a  whole 
Christ." 

Council  of  Trent  Cateckist. 

Both  Roman  Catholics  and  Protestants  acknowledge  that 
Idolatry  is  one  of  the  greatest  sins  that  man  can  commit.  But 
what  is  "Idolatry  ?"  It  is  the  giving  to  a  created  being  the 
respect,  adoration,  and  love  which  are  due  to  God  alone.  To 
make  a  god  with  our  own  hands,  or  to  worship  as  a  god,  any  of 
the  creatures  which  are  on  earth,  in  the  air,  in  the  sea,  or  even 
in  heaven,  is  Idolatry. 

(') 


•■11!^ 


On  the  Mount  Sinai,  in  the  midst  of  lightnings  and  thunders, 
God  Ahnighty  wrote  on  the  stone  with  his  own  fingers: — 

"I  am  the  Lord  thy  God,  which  have  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of 
Egypt,  out  of  the  house  of  bondage. 

"Thou  shall  not  have  otiier  godN  before  me. 

"Thou  »halt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image,  or  any  likeness  of 
anything  that  is  in  heaven  above,  or  that  is  in  the  earth  beneath,  or  that  is  in 
the  water  under  the  earth. 

"Thou  shalt  not  bow  down  thyself  to  them,  nor  serve  them:  for  I  the 
Lord  thy  God  am  a  jealous  God,  visiting  the  iniquities  of  tlie  fathers  upon 
the  children  unto  the  third  and  fourth  generation  of  them  that  hate  me."*  * 
Exodus  XX. 

God  has  never  proffered  any  words  more  plain,  simple,  and 
clear  than  these.  The  young  schoolboy,  as  well  as  the  most  pro- 
found philosopher,  understands  that  by  these  words  God  Al- 
mighty forever  forbade  to  make  a  god  of  a  thing  which  is  crea- 
ted, even  if  that  created  thing  dwells  in  "heaven  above." 

Now  what  does  the  Right  Rev.  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  all 
the  priests  of  Rome,  do  every  morning?  Do  they  not  take  a 
"created  thing,"  a  wafer,  in  their  hands,  and  do  they  not  change 
that  wafer  into  God?  Do  they  not  adore  that  wafer,  when 
turned  into  God?  Do  they  not  command  their  people  to  adore 
that  wafer  after  they  have  changed  it  into  the  Supreme  Creator 
of  the  Universe  and  Saviour  of  the  World? 

What  was  the  crime  of  Aaron  and  the  people  in  the  desert 
when  they  made  the  golden  calf ? ,  Was  it  not  Idolatry?  But 
where  is  the  difference  between  the  crime  of  Aaron  and  the 
iniquity  '  of  Cardinal  Gibbons,  of  Baltimore,  and  all  the 
priests  of  Rome?  The  only  difference  is  that  the  first  one  made 
a  god  of  the  melted  gold  bracelets  and  earrings  of  the  Israelites ; 
while  the  latter  make  their  gods  of  a  little  dough  baked  between 
two  well-polished  heated  irons.  Aaron  said  to  the  people, 
"Break  off  the  golden  earrings  which  are  in  the  ears  of  your 
wives,  of  your  sons,  and  of  your  daughters,  and  bring  them  unto 
me.  And  the  people  brake  off  the  golden  earrings  which  were 
in  their  ears,  and  brought  them  unto  Aaron.  And  he  received 
them  at  their  hand,  and  fashioned  it  with  a  graving  tool,  after 
he  had  made  it  a  molten  calf:  and  they  said,  'These  be  thy 
gods,  O  Israel,  which  brought  thee  out  of  the  land  of  Egypt.' " 
(Exodus  xxxii.)  Now  the  Roman  Catholic  Cardinal  Gibbons 
of  Baltimore,  with  all  the  priests,  every  day,  say  to  their  ser- 
vants, "I  want  to  make  new  gods,  and  new  Chris  s;  I  have 
no  more  in  the  tabernacle.  Bring  some  flour  of  wheat,  mix  it 
with  a  little  water,  and  bake  the  dough  between  this  heated 
graving  tool."  And  the  servants  of  the  cardinal  and  the  priests 
bring  some  wheat  flour,  mix  it  with  a  little  water,  and  bake  the 
dough  between  that  heated  graving  tool.  And  a  moment  after, 
the  bishop  and  the  priests,  holding  in  their  hands  those  wafers 
baked  in  that  heated  graving  tool,  say,  "This  is  Jesus  Christ  the 


IMIDI' 


■f;ir 


■iui^ka^'i::. 


htnings  and  thunders, 
s  own  fingers: — 

thee  out  of  the  land  of 


naj{e,  or  any  likeness  of 
•arth  beneath,  or  that  is  in 

ir  serve  them :  for  I  the 
lities  of  the  fathers  upon 
)f  them  that  hate  me."*  * 


>re  plain,  simple,  and 
>  well  as  the  most  pro- 
lese  words  God  Al- 
thing which  is  crea- 
eaven  above." 
rial  Gibbons  and  all 
Do  they  not  take  a 
d  do  they  not  change 
e  that  wafer,  when 
their  people  to  adore 

he  Supreme  Creator 

i 

i  people  in  the  desert 
not  Idolatry?  But 
B  of  Aaron  and  the 
imore,  and  all  the 
lat  the  first  one  made 
ngs  of  the  Israelites; 
lough  baked  between 
said  to  the  people, 
n  the  ears  of  your 
and  bring  them  unto 
earrings  which  were 
I.  And  he  received 
.  graving  tool,  after 
said,  'These  be  thy 
he  land  of  Egypt.'  " 
lie  Cardinal  Gibbons 
ay,  say  to  their  ser- 
lew  Chris  s;  I  have 
tur  of  wheat,  mix  it 
etween  this  heated 
-dinal  and  the  priests 
water,  and  bake  the 
A.nd  a  moment  after, 
hands  those  wafers 
is  is  Jesus  Christ  the 


Lamb  of  God. 


God  Himself,  who,  beii 


ited. 


This  IS  uou  llimselt,  wno,  bemg  mcarnr 
has  saved  you  on  the  cross.  .  .  Come  and  adore  him."  And 
the  people  say  in  their  heart,  and  they  sing  with  their  lips,  "This 
is  our  incarnated  god,  who,  on  the  cross  died  to  save  us.  .  . 
Let  us  adore  him."  And  prostrating  their  faces  to  the  dust, 
they  adore  their  goti  whom  their  priest  has  just  made  before 
their  eyes  with  a  wafer  baked  in  a  heated  graving  tool! 

Is  not  the  idolatry  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  his  priests  as 
gross  and  criminal  as  the  idolatry  of  Aaron  and  his  people?  Is 
not  tlie  wafer  god  of  the  Pope  as  contemptible,  ridiculous,  im- 
potent, powerless  as  the  gold  calf-god  of  Aaron?  Are  not  the 
two  forms  of  idolatry  as  insulting  to  the  great  God,  who  has  said: 
"Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image,  or  any  like- 
ness of  anything  that  is  in  heaven  above,  or  that  is  in  the  earth 
])eneath,  or  that  is  in  the  water  under  the  earth;  thou  shalt  not 
bow  down  thyself  to  them  nor  serve  them  ?" 

In  order  that  both  the  Roman  Catholics  and  the  Protestants 
may  better  understand  the  abominable  idolatry  of  Rome,  and 
how  the  Pope  is  absolutely  and  publicly  mocking  and  daring 
God  Almighty  in  the  confection  of  the  wafer-god,  I  will  put  the 
commandment  of  God  and  the  orders  of  the  Pope  face  to  face. 

God  Almighty  to  Moses  and  to  all  The  Pope  of  Rome  to  the  bishops 

and  to  the  priests,  and  to  the  whole 
world: — 


the  world: — 

"  Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee 
any  graven  image,  or  any  likeness  of 
anything  that  is  in  heaven  above,  or 
that  is  in  the  earth  beneath,  or  that  is 
in  the  water  under  the  earth.  Thou 
shalt  not  bow  down  th  vself,  nor  serve 
them."— £•.%.  xx. 


"Thou  shalt  make  untoy ou  graven 
images  (called  wafers)  and  a  likeness 
of  something  which  is  in  heaven 
(the  body  of  Christ),  and  you  shall 
bow  down  yourselves  and  serve 
them." — Council  of  Trent. 


Was  it  possible  for  the  devil  to  mock  God,  and  dare  him  in  a 
more  frightful  way  by  inspiring  the  Pope  of  Rome  with  these 
rules  and  commandments  of  his  councils?  Is  not  the  Pope  of 
Rome  renewing  the  awful  mystery  of  iniquity  performed  just 
after  Adam  and  Eve  had  been  created  ? 


Almighty  God  said  to  Adam : — 
"Of  every  tree  of  the  garden  thou 
may  est  freely  eat. 

"But  of  the  tree  of  the  knowledge 
of  good  and  evil,  tliou  shalt  not  eat 
of  it.  For  in  the  day  that  thou  eatest 
thereof  thou  shalt  surely  die." — 
Genesis  ii.,  i6,  17, 


And  the  serpent  said  to  the  woman : 
"Yea,  hath  God  said,  ye  shall  not 
eat  of  every  tree  of  the  garden? 

"Ye  shall  not  surely  die:  For 
God  doth  know  that  in  the  day  ye 
eat  thereof,  then  your  eyes  shall  be 
opened,  and  ye  shall  be  as  gods, 
knowing  good  and  evil." — Genesis 


When  God  Almightysays: — "Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee 
[any  graven  images  of  anything  that  is  in  heaven;  .  .  thou  shalt 
lot  bow  down  and  serve  them,"  the  Pope  boldly  says,  "Thou 
ihalt  make  engraven  images  of  something  which  is  in  heaven, 
ind  thou  shalt  bow  down  thyself  and  serve  them."  And  like 
|he  guilty  mother  Eve,  who  shuts  her  ears  to  the  voice  of  God 


p.. 


and  forgets  his  solemn  command  to  listen  to  the  voice  of  Satan, 
speaking  through  the  serpent,  so  the  guilty  Church  of  Rome 
forgets  the  solemn  laws  of  God,  to  follow  the  orders  of  Satan 
speaking  through  the  popes.  I  know  that  Cardinal  Gibbons 
with  his  priests  will  answer  me:  **Jesus  Christ  has  given  us  the 
order  and  the  power  to  change  the  wafer  into  our  God  when 
He  said,  'This  is  my  body,  .  .  this  is  my  bloc*'..  .  .  Do 
this  in  remembrance  of  Me.'"  But  I  answer:  **Christ  has 
never  received  the  power  from  His  Father  to  ■  do  a  thing  that 
the  Eternal  Father  had  forever  forbidden."  .  .  On  Mount  Sinai 
that  Almighty  God  had  given  his  command,  ''Never  to  make 
an  engraven  image  of  anything  .  .  .  and  turn  that  graven 
image  into  God  .  .  .  bow  down  before  it,  and  adore  it."  Has 
God  ever  repealed  that  law?  No!  He  can  not!  For  himself 
speaking  through  Christ,  has  said,  ''Heaven  and  earth  shall  pass 
away,  but  my  word  shall  never  pass  away."  Has  not  Christ 
said,  "I  come  to  fulfill  the  commandments  of  my  Father?"  How 
could  he  have  said  these  words  if  he  had  given  to  the  popes  and 
their  priests  the  power  to  break  the  most  solemn  and  sacred  of 
them  all?  No!  Christ  would  not  allow  His  apostles  and  His 
church  to  take  a  wafer,  make  an  image  upon  It,  tun  it  into  God, 
and  adore  it.  We  know  He  said,  "This  is  my  body"  (Luke 
xxii.  19).  But  this  was  in  a  figurative  way,  to  tell  them  that  the 
bread  was  to  be  broken  and  eaten  by  them,  that  they  might  ever 
remember  "His  body  nailed  to  the  cross  for  them." 

A  moment  before  we  hear  Christ  saying,  "This  is  my  body." 
We  hear  the  Holy  Ghost  and  Jesus  Christ  Himself  saying: 

6.  "Then  came  the  day  of  unleavened  bread,  when  the  Passox>cr  must  be 
killed. 

7.  "And  he  sent  Peter  and  John  saying: 

8.  "Prepare  us  the  passover  that  we  may  eat.     ... 

9.  "And  they  said  unto  Him,  Wliere  wilt  thou  that  we  prepare? 

10.  "And  he  said  unto  them,  Behold,  when  ye  are  entered  into  the  city, 
there  shall  a  man  meet  you,  bearing  a  pitcher  of  water;  follow  him  into  the 
house  where  he  entereth  in, 

11.  "And  ye  shall  say  unto  the  good  man  of  the  house.  The  Master  saith 
unto  thee,  Where  is  the  guest  chamber  where  I  shall  eat  the  passover  withmy 
disciples  f 

12.  "And  he  shall  show  you  a  large  upper-room  furnished:  there  make 
ready. 

13.  '-And  they  went,  and  found  as  he  said  unto  them ;  and  they  mm/^ 
ready  the  passover. 

14.  "And  when  the  hour  was  come  he  sat  down,  and  the  twelve  apostles 
with  him. 

15.  "And  he  said  unto  them.  With  desire  I  have  desired  to  eat  this  pass- 
over  with  you  before  I  suffer. 

16.  "For  I  say  unto  you,  I  will  not  any  more  eat  thereof,  until  it  be  ful- 
filled in  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

1 7.  "And  he  took  the  cup,  and  gave  thanks  and  said.  Take  this  and  divide 
it  among  yourselves. 

18.  "For  I  say  unto  you,  I  will  not  drink  of  the  fruit  of  the  vine  until  the 
Kingdom  of  God  shall  come. 


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19.  '*  And  he  took  bread,  and  gave  thanks  and  brake  it,  and  gave  unto 
them  saying:  This  is  my  body  whiih  is  given  for  you;  this  do  in  remem- 
brance of  me."    Luke  xxii. 

It  is  true  that  here  Christ  says,  "  This  is  my  body."  But  the 
very  moment  before,  looking  on  the  roasted  lamb,  he  had  said, 
"  This  is  the  passover.  I  want  to  eat  the  passover.  Prepare 
the  passover.     I  have  desired  to  eat  this  passover  writh  you." 

Could  Christ  really  kill,  prepare  and  eat  the  passover?  No. 
Never.  For  the  "  passover  "  was  the  passage  of  the  exterminat- 
ing angel  over  Egypt,  when  he  killed  the  first-born  of  every 
family,  on  the  du  .'-post  of  which  the  blood  of  the  Lamb  was 
not  seen.  That  "  passage  "  or  passover  of  the  angel  could  neither 
be  killed,  roasted,  nor  eaten :  for  the  simple  good  reason  that  a 
passage,  a  passover,  can  neither  be  killed,  roasted,  nor  eaten. 
But  as  the  Lamb  was  killed  and  eaten  to  make  the  Israelites  re- 
member the  "  passage "  of  the  angel  over  Egypt,  that  Lamb 
was  called  the  "passage,"  the  "passover."  Then  Christ,  with 
all  the  Israelites,  instead  of  saying,  "  We  will  kill,  cook,  and 
eat  the  Lamb  which  makes  us  remember  the  "passover;"  they 
said,  "  We  will  kill,  prepare  and  eat  the  '  passover.'  " 

So  Christ,  having  given  the  bread  to  be  eaten  by  his  disciples, 
that  they  might  remember  his  crucified  body,  (do  this  in  remem- 
brance of  me),  had  to  call  that  bread  "  his  body."  It  was  then 
as  it  is  now;  "When  a  thing  is  chosen  to  represent  another 
thing,  it  is  called  by  the  name  of  the  thing  it  represents."  For 
instance,  when  a  man  shows  the  portrait  of  his' wife  and  children 
to  his  friends,  he  does  not  generally  say,  "  This  is  the  portrait, 
the  remembrance  of  my  dear  wife  and  my  beloved  children ;" 
he  simply  says,  "  This  is  my  wife,  these  are  my  children." 
When  one  looks  at  the  large  photographs  of  Cardinal  Gibbons 
he  says,  "This  is  Cardinal  Gibbons;  look  at  his  fine  jolly  face; 
see  his  jovial,  or  dignified  mien."  Nobody,  except  fools  can  be 
tempted  to  think  and  say  that  it  is  really  the  amfable  Roman 
Catholic  Cardinal  of  Baltimore,  because  he  has  heard  "This  is 
Cardinal  Gibbons."  He  knows  very  well  that  it  is  only  some 
paper,  with  the  shades  and  colors  put  by  the  artist.  Neverthe- 
less, he  calls  that  paper  and  those  shades  and  colors  "  Cardinal 
Gibbons,"  for  the  simple  reason  that  it  is,  then,  to  make  them 
remember  his  Lordship. 

So  Christ  said,  "  Kill  the  passover,"  though  the  passover 
co^ld  not  be  killed.  He  said,  "Prepare  the  passover,"  though 
the  passover  could  not  be  prepared.  He  said,  "  I  eat  this  pass- 
over,"  though  he  could  not  eat  the  passover.  So  he  said,  "  This 
is  my  body,"  though  it  was  not  his  body.  He  said,  "  Eat  this, 
my  body,"  though  they  could  not  eat  his  body. 

But,  once  more:  As  the  bread  was  the  representation  of  his 
body,  Christ  had  to  call  that  bread,  "  body."  Christ  could  not 
eat  his  own  body ;  but  he  could  eat  what  was  to  represent  his 
body.     He  could  not  possibly  give  his  body  to  be  eateti  and  his 


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blood  to  be  drunk,  without  making  his  disciples  anthropophagi. 
But  he  could  give  what  represented  his  body  and  his  blood  to  be 
eaten  and  drunk  without  being  guilty  of  that  disgusting  and 
criminal  cannibalism.  It  is  true  that  Christ  said,  **This  is  my 
body."  But  do  you  not  read  in  Genesis  Ixix.  9,  "Judah  is  a 
lion's  whelp."  In  the  verse  14,  "Issachar  is  a  strong  ass." 
Was  Judah's  father  a  lion,  and  Issachar's  father  an  ass?  No. 
But  these  were  figures  of  speech,  just  as  when  Jesus  said,  "This 
is  my  body." 

St.  Paul,  speaking  of  the  sinners,  says,  "Their  throat  is  a 
sepulchre."  Does  the  Cardinal  of  Baltimore  really  believe 
that  the  throat  of  sinners  is  a  sepulchre?  No.  Then  he  has 
no  more  reason  to  believe  that  the  body  of  Christ  had  taken  the 
place  of  the  bread,  after  he  had  said,  "This  is  my  body."  In 
both  cases  the  verb  is  means  (represents)  and  brings  to  the  mind 
a  memorial.  David  says.  Psalm  cxxi.  105: — "Thy  word  is  a 
lamp  unto  my  feet."  Will  ever  the  Pope  sufficiently  forget  all 
the  laws  of  common  sense,  to  tell  us  that  the  word  of  God  is 
really  a  lampP  And  when  Christ  says  "I  am  the  door"  (John 
X.  9),  "I  am  the  true  vine"  (John  xv.  i ),  had  he  really  the  in- 
tention to  make  us  believe  that  he  was  a  door,  or  a  vine?  Does 
not  Paul,  speaking  of  the  "Rock"  from  which  Moses  drew  the 
waters   in  the  desert,  say,  "That  Rock  was  Christ?" 

Will  the  Roman  Catholic  bishops  and  priests,  some  day,  try 
to  persuade  us  that  the  Rock  was  really  Christ,  his  body,  soul, 
and  divinity,  because  the  Holy  Ghost  says,  "That  rock  was 
Christ?"  No.  They  acknowledge  that  the  Rock  -was  not 
Christ,  though  Paul  says  "The  Rock  was  Christ.''''  It  was  only 
a  figure,  a  type,  a  memorial  of  Christ,  and  because  it  was  so  it  was 
called  "Christ."  So  when  our  Saviour  says,  "This  (bread)  is  my 
body.  .  .  Do  this  in  remembrance  of  me,"  he  makes  us  un- 
derstand that  the  bread  was  called  "his  body,"  because  it  was 
presented  to  us  that  we  might  remember  "his  body." 

Jesus  speaking  to  the  Samaritan  woman,  said,  "The  water 
that  I  shall  give  him  shall  be  in  him  a  well  of  water  springing  up 
into  everlasting  life."  (John  iv.  14).  Why  does  not  the  Church 
of  Rome  try  to  persuade  those  who  believe  in  Christ  that  they 
have  such  a  large  well  of  water  within  themselves,  that  it  will 
flow  even  during  all  eternity?  That  well  of  water  which  is  in 
every  Christian  to  quench  his  thirst,  is  just  like  the  body  o'f 
Christ,  which  is  eaten  by  every  one  of  his  disciples,  that  they 
may  never  be  hungry.  Both  are  most  beautiful  and  simple 
figures  when  taken  in  the  sense  they  were  given ;  but  both  turn 
into  a  ridiculous  and  disgusting  idea  when  taken  as  a  material 
reality. 


SECOND    CONSIDERATION. 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION  IS  THE  MOST  DEGRAD- 
ING FORM  OF  IDOLATRY. 

When  the  Persians  adore  the  rising  sun,  they  give  their 
homages  to  the  greatest  and  most  glorious  being  which  is  pre- 
sented to  our  human  vision.  That  magnificent  fiery  orb,  which 
rises  as  a  giant  every  morning  from  behind  the  horizon,  to  pass 
over  the  world  and  pour  everywhere  its  floods  of  heat,  light  and 
life,  can  not  be  contemplated  without  feelings  of  respect,  admira- 
tion, and  awe.  Man  must  raise  his  eyes  up  to  see  that  glorious 
sun ;  he  must  take  up  the  eagle's  wings  to  follow  its  giant  march 
throughout  the  myriads  of  worlds  which  are  suspended  over  our 
heads.  It  is  easy  to  understand  that  poor  fallen  and  blind 
humanity  may  take  that  great  being  for  a  God.  Would  not  this 
world  perish  without  the  sun?  What  would  become  of  the 
nations  which  inhabit  the  earth  without  its  light  and  heat? 
Would  not  everything  perish  and  die,  if  the  sun  would  forget 
to  come  every  day,  and  make  us  bathe  and  swim  in  its  oceans  of 
light  and  life.  Then,  when  I  see  the  Persian  priests  of  the  sun, 
in  their  magnificent  temple  waiting,  with  their  censers  in  hand, 
for  the  appearance  of  its  first  rays,  to  chant  their  melodious 
hymns  and  sing  their  sublime  canticles  to  its  glory,  I  know  their 
errors,  but  I  can  understand  it.  I  was  going  to  say,  I  can  almost 
excuse  it.  I  feel  an  immense  compassion  for  those  poor  Idolaters. 
But,  at  the  same  time,  I  feel  that  they  are  raised  above  the  dust 
of  this  earth,  and  that  their  minds  must  be  filled  with  sentiments 
of  gratitude  and  adoration  for  that  great  being.  Their  intelligence 
and  their  souls  can  not  but  receive  some  sparks  of  light  and  life 
from  the  contemplation  of  that  inexhaustible  focus  of  light  and  life. 
But  the  poor  deluded  Roman  Catholic  I  Is  he  not  a  thousand  times 
more  worthy  of  our  compassion  and  our  tears,  when  we  see  him 
prostrated  in  the  presence  of  that  small  "wafer-god,"  which  the 
servant  girl  of  the  priest  has  baked  a  few  hours  before  in  her 
kitchen  ?  Is  it  possible  to  see  a  spectacle  more  disgraceful  and 
ignominious  than  a  multitude  of  men  and  women  prostrating  their 
faces  to  the  dust,  to  adore  a  god  whom  the  rats  and  mice  have  a 
thousand  times,  dragged  and  devoured  in  their  dark  little  holes? 
Where  are  the  rays  of  light  and  life  from  that  little  cake?  In- 
stead of  being  enlarged  and  elevated,  at  the  approach  of  that  ridic- 
ulous modern  divinity,  is  not  human  intelligence  contracted, dim- 
inished, paralyzed,chilled,struck  with  idiotism  and  death  at  its  feet? 

Can  we  be  surprised  that  the  Roman  Catholic  nations  are  so 
fast  falling  down  into  the  abyss  of  infidelity  and  atheism,  when 
they  hear  their  priests  telling  them  that  this  contemptible  wafer 
is  the  great  God  who  had  created  heaven  and  earth  at  the  be- 
ginning, and  saved  this  perishing  world  by  dying  on  the  cross, 
some  eighteen  hundred  years  ago? 


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Rome,  by  her  grand  and  terrible  apostacy  at  the  feet  of  the 
wiifer-god,  has  overwhelmed  Christianity  under  such  a  heap  of 
infamous  and  outrageous  impostures,that  it  has  almostdisappeared 
from  the  minds  of  the  nations  whom  God  had  the  more  endowed 
with  intelligence,  as  the  French  and  Italian  people.  Go  to 
those  countries,  and  ask  the  people  if  they  believe  that  their 
priests  can  make  a  god  out  of  wafer,  and  they  will  shrug  their 
shoulders  in  disgust  and  laughter  at  your  silly  question. 

It  is  a  f  !*ct  that  the  wafer-god  of  the  Pope  has  done  more  than 
anything  else  to  destroy  the  religion  of  Christ  from  the  minds  of 
the  learned  and  the  intelligent.  This  diabolical  doctrine  of  a  god 
made  with  a  little  cake  is,  to-day,  believed  in  France,  Italy,  Can- 
ada, Spain,  etc.,  only  by  some  old  women  and  poor  ignorant 
people  who  cannot  write  nor  read  their  own  names.  The  rest 
try  to  believe  it;  they  make  supreme  efforts  to  believe  it;  but 
they  cannot. 

We  heard,  a  few  years  ago,  that  the  Siamese  had  been  over- 
whelmed with  desolation,  when  their  big  white  elephant  died, 
after  having  been  the  object  of  their  adorations  for  more  than  a 
century.  But,  fortunately,  the  numberless  priests  of  the  dead 
god  had  not  lost  a  single  hour;  after  they  had  buried  their  de- 
parted divinity  with  due  honors,  they  had  ransacked  their  deep 
and  dark  forests,  and  had  soon  come  back  with  a  bigger  and 
younger  living  white  elephant.  The  lucky  animal  was  carried 
in  triumph  all  over  the  kingdom,  with  a  gold  chain  of  fabulous 
value  to  his  neck,  gold  cloth,  sprinkled  with  the  richest  pearls 
and  diamonds  on  his  back.  In  the  midst  of  the  sweetest  melo- 
dies, the  hymns  of  adoration,  and  the  clouds  of  incense  from  the 
golden  censers  which  every  priest  carried  in  his  hands,  the  new- 
ly found  god  was  installed  in  his  magnificent  temple;  and  there 
from  morning  to  night,  he  is  adored  by  the  millions  of  Siamese 
who  recognize  him  for  their  god. 

All  this  is  very  sad,  humiliating!     Yes! 

But  there  is  something  more  sad  and  humiliating  than  taking 
an  elephant  for  the  great  God  who  has  created  and  saved  this 
world;  it  is  to  see  the  Pope  of  Rome,  with  his  hundred  of  mil- 
lions of  blind  and  deluded  slaves,  prostrated  before  a  contempti- 
ble wafer,  baked  between  two  heated  irons,  and  adoring  it  as  the 
great,  eternal,  almighty  God,  creator  of  heaven  and  earth! 

The  elephant  of  Siam  is  surely  a  noble  God,  when  compared 
with  the  modern  divinity  of  the  Pope.  That  elephant  may  be 
taken  as  the  symbol  of  strength,  magnanimity,  patience,  etc. 
Let  a  man  go  and  insult  or  attack  him,  he  can  protect  himself; 
with  his  mighty  trunk  he  will  take  his  enemy,  throw  him  up 
very  high  in  the  air,  and  cause  him  to  fall  a  corpse  on  the 
ground.  He  can  crush  his  foes  under  his  feet;  he  can  protect 
his  friends,  and  save  them  in  the  hour  of  danger.  There  is  life, 
motion  and  strength  in  that  elephant  god.     He  can  go  by  him- 


the  feet  of  the 
such  a  heap  of 
lostdisappeared 
!  more  endowed 
eople.  Go  to 
ieve  that  their 
ill  shrug  their 
uestion. 

done  more  than 
)m  the  minds  of 
octrine  of  a  god 
nee,  Italy,  Can- 
poor  ignorant 
nes.  The  rest 
believe  it;  but 

had  been  over- 
elephant  died, 
or  more  than  a 
ts  of  the  dead 
iiried  their  de- 
rived their  deep 
1  a  bigger  and 
ial  was  carried 
ain  of  fabulous 
J  richest  pearls 
sweetest  melo- 
icense  from  the 
ands,  the  new- 
iple;  and  there 
3ns  of  Siamese 


ig  than  taking 
and  saved  this 
mdred  of  mii- 
e  a  contempti- 
loring  it  as  the 
nd  earth! 
hen  compared 
phant  may  be 
patience,  etc. 
otect  himself; 
irow  him  up 
orpse  on  the 
e  can  protect 
There  is  life, 
n  go  by  him- 


1 1 

self  from  one  place  to  the  other.  He  can  move  with  his  feet, 
see  with  his  eyes,  hear  with  his  ears. 

But  look  at  the  divinity  of  Rome.  Come  and  see  its  hands  in 
that  wafer;  they  cannot  move!     The  feet,  they  cannot  walk! 

The  eyes,  they  cannot  see!     The  ears,  they  cannot  hear! 

There  is  neither  life,  nor  strength,  nor  motion  in  this  Roman 
Catholic  divinity.  Let  a  rat  or  a  mouse  come  and  bite  the 
elephant-god  of  Siam,  and  you  will  see  how  he  will  instantly 
punish  it.  But  let  a  rat  or  a  mouse  come  and  attack  the  poor 
defenceless  wafer-god  of  the  Pope,  as  it  very  often  occurs,  and 
you  will  see  how  '  hat  modern  Majesty  will  be  powerless  to  pro- 
tect itself,  and  how  it  will  soon  be  crushed  under  the  teeth  of  his 
weak  enemies,  and  engulphed  into  their  stomachs,  to  be  digested 
as  a  crumb  of  common  bread. 

THIRD   CONSIDERATION. 

GOD    HIMSELF    TURNS     THE     WAFER-GOD    OF 
ROME  INTO  RIDICULE. 

So  speaks  our  almighty  and  eternal  God,  through  his  Prophet 
Isaiah,  ch.  xliv. 

9  "They  that  make  a  graven  image  .are  all  of  them  vanity' :  and  their  de- 
lectable things  shall  not  profit;  and  they  are  their  own  witnesses:  they  see 
not  nor  know ;  that  they  may  be  ashamed.  Who  hath  formed  a  god,  or 
molten  agraven  image  thatis  profitable  for  nothing?  Behold,  all  his  fellows 
shall  be  ashamed,  and  the  workmen  they  are  of  men:  let  them  all  be  gath- 
ered together,  let  them  stand  up;  yet  they  shall  fear,  and  they  shall  be 
ashamed  together.  The  smiths  with  the  tongs,  both  worketh  in  the  coals, 
and  fashioneth  it  with  hammers,  and  worketh  it  with  the  strength  of  his 
arms:  yea,  he  is  hungry,  and  his  strength  faileth ;  he  drinketh  no  water,  and 
is  faint.  The  carpenter  stretcheth  out  his  rule;  he  marketh  it  out  with  a 
line;  he  iitteth  it  with  planes,  and  he  marketh  it  out  with  a  compass,  and 
maketh  it  after  the  figure  of  a  man,  that  it  may  remain  in  the  house.  He 
heweth  him  down  cedars,  and  taketh  the  cypress  and  the  oak,  which  he 
strengtheneth  for  himself  among  the  trees  of  the  forest ;  he  planteth  an  ash, 
and  the  rain  doth  nourish  it.  Then  shall  it  be  for  a  man  to  burn :  for  he  will 
take  thereof,  and  warm  himself;  yea,  he  kindteth  it,  and  baketh  bread,  yea, 
he  maketh  a  god  and  worshippeth  it ;  he  maketh  it  a  graven  image,  and 
falleth  down  thereto.  He  burneth  part  thereof  in  the  Are;  with  part  thereof 
he  eateth  flesh ;  he  roasteth  roast,  and  is  satisfied ;  yea.  he  warmeth  himself, 
and  saith.  Aha,  I  am  warm,  I  have  seen  the  fire:  and  the  resident  thereof  he 
maketh  a  god,  even  his  graven  image ;  he  falleth  down  unto  it,  and  wo'ship- 
peth  it,  and  prayeth  unto  it,  and  saith,  deliver  me;  for  thou  art  my  god. 
They  have  not  known  nor  understood:  for  he  hath  shut  their  eyes,  that  they 
cannot  see;  and  their  hearts,  that  they  cannot  understand.  And  none  con- 
sidereth  in  his  heart,  neither  is  their  knowledge  nor  understanding  to  say,  I 
have  burned  part  of  it  in  the  fire ;  yea,  also  I  have  baked  bread  upon  the 
coals  thereof;  I  have  roasted  flesh  and  eaten  it:  and  shall  I  make  the  residue 
thereof  an  abomination?  shall  I  fall  down  to  the  stock  of  a  tree?  He  feed- 
eth  on  ashes:  a  deceived  heart  hath  turned  him  aside,  that  he  cannot  deliver 
his  soul,  nor  say,  Is  there  not  a  lie  in  my  right  hand?" 

Who  can  read  those  words  of  the  old  prophet  without  finding 
in  them  the  condemnation  of  the  monstrous  imposure  and  idol- 
atry of  the  wafer-god. 


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Let  us  put  face  to  face  the  words  of  God  and  the  facts  con> 
nected  with  the  confection  and  the  usages  of  the  wafer-god  of 
Rome,  to  see  the  perfect  similarity  between  the  old  idolatry  of 
the  days  of  Isaiah  and  the  modern  idolatry  of  Rome. 


ISAIAH. 

They  that  make  a  graven  image 
are  all  of  them  vanity;  and  their 
delectable  things  cannot  profit;  and 
they  are  their  own  witnesses ;  they 
see  not,  nor  know :  that  they  may  be 
ashamed. 

Who  hath  formed  a  god  or  molten 
a  graven  image  that  is  profitable  for 
nothing? 

The  smith  with  the  tongs  both 
worketh  in  the  coals,  and  fashioned  it 
with  hammers,  and  worketh  it  with 
the  strength  of  his  arms. 

The  carpenter  stretcheth  out  his 
rule,  he  maketh  it  out  with  a  line ;  he 
fitteth  it  with  planes ;  and  he  marketh 
it  out  with  a  compass,  and  maketh  it 
with  a  figure  of  a  man,  that  it  may 
remain  in  the  house. 

He  heweth  him  down  cedars,  and 
taketh  the  cypress  and  the  oak,  which 
he  strengtheneth  for  himself  among 
the  trees  of  the  forest ;  he  planteth  an 
ash,  and  the  rain  doth  nourish  it. 

Then  shall  it  be  for  a  man  to  burn ; 
for  he  will  take  thereof,  and  warm 
himself;  yea,  he  kindleth  it;  and 
baketh  his  bread  ;j«a,  he  maketh  a 
god,  and  worshippeth  it ;  he  maketh  it 
a  graven  image,  and  falleth  down 
thereunto. — Isaiah  xltv.  ij. 

He  burneth  part  thereof  in  the  fire ; 
with  part  thereof  he  eateth  flesh ;  he 
roasteth  roast  and  is  satisfied  ;yea,  he 
warmeth  himself,  and  saith,  "Aha,  I 
am  warm,  I  have  seen  the  fire — ." 
Isaiah  xtiv.  16. 

And  the  residue  thereof  he  maketh 
a  god,  even  his  graven  image ;  he  fall- 
etn  down  unto  it,  and  prayeth  unto  it 
and  saith,  "Deliver  me;  for  thou  art 
my  god." — Isaiah  xliv.  if. 

They  have  not  known  or  under- 
stood: for  he  hath  shut  their  eyes, 
that  they  cannot  see  and  their  hearts 
that  they  cannot  understand. — Isaiah 
xliv.  fS. 

And  none  considereth  in  his  heart 
neither  is  there  knowledge  nor  under- 
standing to  say,  I  have  burned  part  of 


THE     POPK    AND  HIS   PARTY. 

Every  day  they  make  innumerable 
graven  images  .  .  .  which  are  all 
vanity :  their  delectable  things  can- 
not profit  them.  They  are  their  own 
witnesses :  they  see  not,  nor  know : 
that  they  may  be  ashamed. 

The  Pope  and  his  priests  every  day 
form  a  god  with  a  molten  or  baked 
image  that  is  profitable  for  nothing. 

The  Pope  and  his  priests  put  their 
irons  on  the  coal;  and  with  the 
strength  of  their  hands  they  work  the 
image  and  bake  the  wafers,  which 
they  will  adore  as  their  god. 

The  Pope  and  his  priests  every 
day  bake  the  wafer,  on  which  they 
have  put  the  figure  of  a  man,  with 
their  round  knife ;  they  cut  it  nicely, 
that  it  may  remain  in  the  house  (the 
tabernacle  of  the  church). 

The  Pope  and  the  priests  every  day 
select  the  finest  flour  of  the  wheat 
raised  by  farmers,  and  ground  be- 
tween the  grinding  stones  of  a  mill, 
and  passed  through  the  finest  sieves 
of  the  coutry. 

The  Pope  and  the  priests  take  a 
part  of  the  flour,  and  make  fine  loaves 
of  bread  and  sweet  cakes,  with  it ;  and 
the  other  parts  of  the  flour  is  baked 
into  wafers,  on  which  there  are  gra- 
ven images  which  they  worship,  and 
before  which  they  fall  down  thereto 

The  Pope  anr  the  priests  with  a 
part  of  that  fin  j  flour  make  fine  pal- 
try, and  eat  tnem,  and  are  satisfied ; 
and  they  say,  "Aha,  we  are  satisfied, 
we  have  eaten  well." 

And  the  residue  thereof  they  make 
a  god,  a  god  with  an  engraven  image. 

They  fall  down  unto  it,  and  pray 
unto  it,  and  say,  "Deliver  us;  for 
thou  art  my  god." 

The  Popes  and  their  priests  have 
not  known  nor  understood :  for  He 
(God  Almighty) hathshut their  eyeo, 
that  they  cannot  see,  and  their  hearts 
that  they  cannot  understand. 

And  none  of  the  Popes  and  the 
priests  have  any  knowledge  and  un- 
derstanding to  say,  "I  have  baked  a 


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it  in  fire;  ^^ea,  also  I  liave  halted 
bread  upon  tlie  coals  thereof ;  I  h  tve 
roasted  flesh  and  eaten  it :  and  I'lall 
Imaliethe  residue  thereof  an  al>omi- 
nation?  shall  I  fall  down  to  the  stock 
of  a  tree  ? — Isaiak  xliv.  ig. 

lie  feedeth  on  ashes;  a  deceived 
heart  has  turned  him  aside,  that  he 
cannot  deliver  his  soul  nor  say,  "  Is 
there  not  a  lie  in  my  right  hand  ?" — 
Isaiah  xliv.  ao. 


part  of  that  dough  to  make  a  loaf  of 
bread  on  the  fire.  .  .  .  yea,  I  have 
baked  pastry  with  another  part  there- 
of; and  shall  I  make  the  residue 
thereof  an  abomination?  shall  I  fall 
down  before  a  cake  and  a  vile  wafer? 
The"Pope,  with  his  priests,  feedeth 
on  ashes;  a  deceitful  heart  has 
turned  him  aside,  that  he  cannot  de- 
liver his  soul,  nor  jay,  "Is  there  not 
a  lie  in  my  right  hand  ?" 


FOURTH    CONSIDERATION. 

OUR  SAVIOUR  JESUS  CHRIST  FORETELLS  THE 
ABOMINABLE  IDOLATRY  OF  THE  WAFER- 
CHRISTS  OF  ROME,  AND  WARNS  HIS  DIS- 
CIPLES AGAINST  IT. 

We  re.id  this  remarkable  prophecy  about  the  false  Christs  of 
Rome  in  Mathew,  ch.  xxiv.,  v.  22,  23,  24,  25,  26. 

"And  except  those  days  shall  be  shortened,  there  should  no  flesh  be  saved: 
but  for  the  elect's  sake  those  days  shall  be  shortened. 

"Then,  if  any  man  say  unto  you,  Lo,  herew  Christ  or  there,  believe  it  not. 

"For  there  shall  arise  false  Christs  and  false  prophets,  and  shall  show 
great  signs  and  wonders ;  insomuch  that,  if  it  were  possible,  they  shall 
deceive  the  very  elect. 

"Behold,  I  have  told  you  before. 

"Wherefore,  if  they  shall  say  unto  you;  Behold,  he  is  is  in  the  desert;  go 
not  forth ;  behold.  He  is  in  the  secret  chambers;  believe  it  not." 

The  Son   of   God  prophesies,  here,  four   things   about   the 

false  Christs,  against  the  worship  of  whom  he  warns  us. 

I  St.  There  will  be  many  of  those  false  Christs. 

2d.  Sometimes  they  will  be  here  and  sometimes  there. 

3d.  That  it  will  be  told  of  that  Christ  that  he  is  in  the  desert. 

4th.    That  the  false  Christs  will  dwell  in  secret  chambers - 

Those  four  characters  by  which  our  adorable  Saviour  invites 

us  to  recognize,  and  shun  the  false  Christ  of  whom  he  speaks, 

coincide  perfectly  with  the  false  wafer- Christ  of  Rome,  and  I 

here   publicly   challenge   not  only   Cardinal  Gibbons,  but   all 

the  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome,  to  deny  or  explain  away  those 

four  characters  of  their  wafer-Christs. 

1.  No  priests  or  bishops  will  deny  that  there  are  many,  very 
many,  Christs  in  their  midst.  For  it  is  a  public  fact  that  every 
church  contains  from  a  dozen  to  one  and  five  hundred  and  more 
of  those  Christs  who  are  shut  up  in  the  gold  or  silver  ciboriums. 
I  do  not  exaggerate  when  I  say  that  there  are  more  than  a 
million  of  those  Christs  worshipped  every  day  in  the  different 
churches  of  Rome. 

2.  No  priests  nor  any  bishops  will  dare  to  deny  that  their  false 
Christ  is  "sometimes  here  and  sometimes  there."  For  every  day 
they  have  to  carry  it  to  the  sick  and  dying  under  the  name  of 


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"Holy  Viaticum."  When  Patrick  O'Brien,  for  instance,  is  very 
sick  in  the  morning,  does  not  the  priest  of  Rome  carry  his  Christ 
to  his  house,  at  the  northern  part  of  the  town,  that  the  poor 
deluded  man  may  adore  and  eat  him  ?  and  do  not  the  deluded 
Catholics  run  to  the  house  of  the  sick  man  when  they  hear  that 
their  Christ  is  "there"  to  adore  him  "there?"  And  when,  at 
the  end  of  the  same  day,  that  same  priest  hears  that  Bridget 
O'Donohue  is  sick  and  dying,  at  the  southern  extremity  of  the 
town,  does  he  not  again  promptly  carry  his  Christ,  under  the 
name  of  "Viaticum,"  that  the  poor  deluded  girl  or  married 
woman  may  adore  and  eat  him  ?  And  then,  again,  do  not  the 
blind  and  so  cruelly-deceived  Roman  Catholics,  when  hearing 
that  their  Christ  is  "here,"  in  this  southern  part  of  the  town, 
run  at  the  double-quick  from  every  side  to  come  and  adore 
their  Christ  "here."  This  morning  they  were  running  to  the 
northern  side  of  the  town  to  worship  their  Christ  "there."  .  . 
And  this  evening  they  run  at  their  full  speed  again  towards  the 
southern  part,  to  adore  him  "here." 

The  Saviour  of  the  World  had  said,  "If  any  man  say  unto 
you,  Lo!  here  is  Christ,  or  there,  believe  it  not."  But  the  Pope 
with  his  bishops,  say  to  their  poor  blind  slaves,  "  When  your 
priests  will  lell  you  that  here  is  Christ,  or  there,  believe  it."  In 
this  matter,  as  in  every  other  question,  the  Pope  is  directly,  ab- 
solutely, opposed  tc  Jesus  Christ.  Our  Saviour  positively  says, 
'•When  they  tell  you,  Lo!  here  is  Christ,  or  there,  believe  it 
not."  The  Pope  says,  "When  they  will  tell  you,  Lo!  here  is 
Christ,  or  there,  believe  it!" 

The  third  character  of  the  false  Christ  of  Rome  is  as  clear 
and  evident  as  his  Brst  and  second  one,  and  I  challenge  the 
bishops  and  the  priests  to  deny  it. 

"If  they  shall  say  unto  you,  Behold  He(Christ)i8  in  thedesert.go  not  forth." 

What  is  a  desert?  A  place  where  nobody  dwells.  A  desert 
is  a  place  where  people  may  pass  a  few  hours  for  some  particular 
purpose,  but  they  have  no  idea  to  live  and  reside  in  it.  It  is  not 
a  fit  place  to  dwell  in.  .  .  After  a  few  hours  of  stay  in  the  desert 
or  passage  through  it,  they  get  out  of  it,  leaving  nothing  behind 
them.  And  that  place,  after  having  seen  several  people  in  its 
bosom  for  some  time,  remains  a  desert,  a  perfect  wilderness.  So 
is  the  church  where  for  an  hour  or  two,  the  people  go  to  pray  or 
sing  and  hear  a  sermon.  After  the  public  service,  every  one  goes 
out  of  it,  and  it  remains  a  desert,  a  solitude.  Nobody  lives  there 
except  the  rats  and  the  mice.  The  fact  of  their  Saviour  Jesus 
Christ  remaining  alone  in  a  deserted  place,  in  a  solitude  where 
nobody  attends  him,  has  so  painfully  struck  some  devoted  Roman 
Catholics,  that  they  have  written  beautiful  and  tender  pages  on 
the  want  of  love  and  respect  of  the  people  who  left  such  a  glorious 
Saviour,  the  Son  of  God  alone,  in  a  solitude,  a  desert,  without 
any  one  to  adore  and  praise  Him.  More  than  that,  the  Jesuits  have 


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lately,  instituted  a  new  order  of  devotees,  whose  duties  are  never 
to  let  their  so-called  Saviour  alone.  Each  member  of  that  society 
IS  bound  to  select  an  hour  of  the  day  or  the  night  which  they  will 

Ipass  in  the  church  in  adoring  him.     In  that  way,  a  certain  num- 

Iber  of  chnrches  have  ceased  from  being  a  desert,  a  solitude .... 

{For  in  those  churches  there  are  always  some  worshippers  who, 
one  after  the  other,  come  to  pass  their  hour  before  the  altar  and 
offer  their  homages  to  their  wafer-Christ.  But  these  very 
efforts  made  by  the  Jesuits  to  prevent  the  accomplishment  of 
the  prophecy  of  Christ,  is  its  most  undeniable  confirmation. 
The  Son  of  God,  speaking  of  the  false  Christ,  he  said,  ''  If 

[they  shall  say  unto  you,  Behold  He  (Christ)  is  in  the  desert, 
go  not  forth.".  .But  the  Pope  says,  "  When  the  priest  tells  you, 
Behold  He  (Christ)  is  in  the  desert,  go  forth  and  adore  Him 
there  in  that  desert." 

The  fourth  character  by  which  our  adorable  Saviour  warns 
us  against  the  deception  of  the  wafer-Christ  and  god  of  Rome 
is  that  "  He  will  dwell  in  secret  chambers." 

"  Wherefore,  if  they  shall  say  unto  you,  behold he  is  in  the  secret 

chambers,  believe  it  not."    (Matt,  xxiv.,  26.) 

Can  any  bishop  or  priest  of  Rome  deny  that  their  modern  and 
false  Christ  is,  day  and  night,  in  secret  chambers^  where  they 
themselves,  with  their  own  hand,  shut  him  up,  every  morning? 
If  any  one  of  our  readers,  particularly  among  the  Protestants, 
has  any  doubt  about  that  fact,  let  them  not  believe  what  we  say 
here,  but  let  them  go  to  the  Roman  Catholic  bishop  or  priest  of 
the  nearest  city  or  town,  and  let  them  politely  invite  the  Pope's 
representative  to  come  with  them  to  hie  chii^ch.  And  when  there, 
let  them  walk  around  the  church  till  they  come  before  the  altar, 
and  then,  let  them  stop,  and  look  with  attentipt^  at  the  altar.  They 
will  see,  above  the  front  table  of  the  att^r,  'a  beautiful  door, 
which  is  almost  invariably  the  most  richly  decorated  part  of  the 
church.  With  very  rare  exceptions,  the  sculptor  has  put  there 
the  most  perfect  sculpture  which  his  chisels  could  make ;  and  the 
gilder  has  plated  or  gilded  it  with  his  utmost  skill  and  perfection. 
When  the  inquirer  will  have  admired  the  workmanship  of  that 
door,  let  him  ask  the  bishop  or  priest  of  Rome,  "  Is  there  a 
secret  chamber  behind  that  door?"  and  the  bishop  or  his  priest 
will  have  to  answer,  "  Yes;  there  is  a  secret  and  a  most  sacred 
chamber  behind  that  door,  which  we  call  *  The  Tabernacle.'  " 
Let  the  inquirer  continue  his  questions,  and  ask,  *^Is  there  any- 
body in  that  secret  and  most  sacred  chamber  which  you  call  '  The 
Tabernacle? ' "  and  the  Roman  Catholic  dignitary  will  be  forced 
to  answer,  "  Yefr;  there  is  somebody  in  that  sacred  chamber." 
Then,  let  the  inquirer  ask,  "  Who  is  there?  by  what  name  do 
you  call  the  being  who  dwells  in  that  secret  chamber?  "  And  the 
Roman  Catholic  bishop,  with  his  priests,  will  have  to  answer, 
''  It  is  Jesus  Christ  who  is  there?  "  The  inquirer,  puzzled  at  that 


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answer,  will  probably  say  to  the  bishop,  "You  do  not  mean,  sir, 
that  it  is  the  living  and  glorified  Christ,  with  his  botly,  soul  and 
divinity,  who  is  there  in  that  secret  chamber;  ....  you  surely 
mean  only  that  it  is  a  memorial,  a  simple  remembrance  of  Jesus 
Christ!"  Assuming,  then,  an  air  of  solemnity  and  awe,  the  Ro- 
man Catholic  cardinal  will  answer,  "Yes,  sir!  I  mean  that  it  is 
Jesus  Christ  Himself,  the  living  Christ,  the  glorified  Christ,  in 
person  with  his  body,  soul  and  divinity,  who  is  in  that  most 
holy  tabernacle."  I  consent  to  be  branded  before  the  world  as 
an  impostor,  and  to  be  publicly  punished  as  a  sacrilegious  calum- 
niator, if  the  bishop  and  the  priest  of  Rome  do  not  give  these 
answers,  or  some  others  which  come  to  the  same  sense 

But  if  this  public  acknowledgment  of  Christ  in  secret  cham- 
bers is  made  by  the  Church  of  Rome  herself,  through  her  most 
accredited  authorities,  who  can  deny  that  the  awful  prophecy  of 
the  Son  of  God  is  accomplished  in  our  very  midst?  Who 
will  not  see  with  his  own  eyes,  and  hear  with  his  own  ears,  that 
the  false  Christs,  foretold  by  the  Saviour  of  the  world  are  taking 
possession  of  the  world;  they  are  multiplied  without  measure  in 
every  city  or  town ;  they  are  adored  everywhere  by  the  blind 
multitudes  whom  the  Pope  keeps  abjectly  prostrated  at  the  feet 
of  their  idols  in  the  secret  chambers. 

With  Paul,  when  contemplating  that  grand  and  terrible  my- 
stery of  iniquity,  must  we  not  say  ? — 

"The  mystery  of  Iniquity  dotii  already  worlt:  only  he  who  now  letteth 
will  let,  until  he  is  talien  out  of  the  way. 

"And  then  shall  that  wiclied  be  revealed,  whom  the  Lord  shall  consume 
with  the  Spirit  of  His  mouth,  and  shall  destroy  with  the  brightness  of  his 
coming. 

"Even  him  whose  coming  is  after  the  working  of  Satan  with  all  power 
and  signs  and  l^'ing  wonders. 

"And  with  all  deceivableness  of  unrighteousness  in  them  that  perish ;  be- 
cause they  receive  not, the  love  of  the  truth  that  they  might  be  saved. 

"And  for  this  cause  God  shall  send  them  strong  delusions,  that  they 
should  believe  a  lie. 

"That  they  all  might  be  damned  who  believed  not  the  truth,  but  had 
pleasure  in  unrighteousness."—  2  Th.  ii. 

FIFTH  CONSIDERATION 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION  MAKES  GOD  INFERIOR 
TO  MAN,  AND  CHANGES  MAN  INTO  GOD. 

The  Creator  is  above  the  created  thing,  but  it  is  evident  that,in 
the  impious  dogma  of  Transubstantiation,  the  priest  of  Rome  is 
put  much  above  his  God. 

It  will  not  require  long  reflections  to  understand  that,  by  his 
magical  power,  in  the  act  of  changing  the  wafer  into  their  god,. 

rthe  popes  and  the  priests  of  Rome  become  infinitely  stronger, 
more  powerful,  and  superior  to  their  poor  ignominious  divinity. 
For  they  assure  us  that  the  vtry  moment  the  priest  speaks,  God 
obeys,  and  submits  himself  to  the  will  of  that  priest;  He  can  not 


^>e  who  now  lettettv 


itan  with  all  power 


:  the  truth,  but  had 


»7 

I'esist ;  He  can  not  delay ;  He  must  come  down  from  His  throne,an(f 

lodge  his  humanity  and  divinity  in  that  little  round  and  thin  cake  on 

rhich  tlie  officiating  priest  has  said,  **//oc  est  enim  corpus  meum^'' 

The  marvelous  act  of  Joshua  is  nothing  but  a  child's  play,  when 

:ompared  with  the  miracle  performed  by  the  priest  of  Rome, 

;very  morning.  Joshua  had  to  deal  only  with  two  of  the  inanimate 

:reatures  of  God,  when  he  stopped  the  sun  and  moon  in  their 

larch  through  the  skies;  but  it  is  with  the  Creator,  the  Master  of 

the  sun,  the  moon,  and  the  stars  and  all  the  worlds,  that  the  priest 

las  to  deal,  to  whom  he  commands,  and  by  whom  he  is  obeyed. 

The  power  of  the  priest  over  God,  in  that  dogma,  is  absolute, 

lersonal,  without  appeal.     God  has  no  power  of  resistance;  He 

las  no  power  of  appeal,  no  power  of  delay.     He  must  come 

jdown  from  His  throne,  quicker  than  lightning,  into  that  cake  and 

transform  it  into  His  divine,  eternal,  almighty  person  of  the  Son, 

it  the  will  and  bidding  of  the  priest,  not  only  once  a  day,  but  as 

)ften  as  it  will  be  the  pleasure  of  the  priest  to  pronounce  on  a 

('afer,  or  any  other  crumb  of  wheat  bread,  the  magical  words, 

YHoc  est  enim  corfus  meun:.'''' 

Let  both  the  Roman  Catholics  and  the  Protestants  well  con- 
sider that  the  church  of  Rome,  positively,  says  that  her  priests 
:an  perform  tnat  tremendous  miracle  not  only  once  a  day,  at 
lass ;  but  at  every  moment  of  the  day  and  night  it  will  please  them 
to  pronounce  those  words,  with  the  required  intention,  the  bread 
is  changed  into  the  body,  blood,  sonl  and  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ. 
|For  instance,  let  the  Kishops  and  priests  of  Sydney  and  Mel- 
journe,  of  Paris  and  London,  of  Constantinople  and  Pekin,  of 
Lome  and  Geneva,  of  New  York  and  Quebec  or  Chicago,  pass 
through  the  streets  of  those  cities  to-day,  and,  stopping  before 
their  bakeries,  pronounce  on  the  loaves  of  bread  which  are  there, 
jimder  their  eyes,  the  words,  "//or  est  enim  corpus  nieumj''  there 
Ivvill  not  remain  a  single  loaf  of  bread  in  any  one  of  those  bakeries! 
^very  loaf  will  have  been  changed  into  the  body,  blood,  soul  and 
livinity  of  Jesus  Christ.     Every  loaf  will  have  become  a  god, 
Miich  you  must  adore  under  the  pain  of  eternal  damnation! 
[More  than  that,  every  particle  of  those  loaves  if  they  are  crushed 
into  fragments  and  pulverized,  will  be  changed  into  the  true  body, 
[blood,  soul  and  divinity  of  Jesus  Christ!  and  eternally  cursed 
jinust  be  those  who  will  not  adore  each  one  of  those  millions  and 
|millions  of  fragments  and  atoms  of  bread  as  the  great  and  merci- 
ful God  who  created  the  worlds  with  a  word  from  his  lips,  and 
saved  it  when  incarnated,  by  dying  on  the  Cross. 

But  if  these  considerations  are  not  sufficient  to  convince  the 
jmind  of  every  intelligent  Roman  Catholic  and  Protestant  of  the 
■diabolical  character  which  the  dogma  of  Transubstantiation  bears 
Ion  its  face,  let  them  reflect  on  the  following  propositions,  which 
jl  challenge  the  Catholic  bishops  of  the  whole  world  to  deny. 
The  Church  of  Rome  not  only  teaches  her  blind  followers 


A 


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i8 

that  every  {jooil  priest  has  tiie  tremendous  power  of  trnnsfurining 
tlie  wafers,  and  all  the  wheat  loaves  of  bread  which  are  on  the 
earth,  into  }j[ods,  at  every  hour  of  the  day  or  night,  in  the  churches, 
in  the  streets,  in  the  bakers'  carls  and  bakers'  shops;  but  every 
'■'■dail  priest ^'^  every  drunken  priest^  every  interdicted  and  excom- 
municatcd  priest,  has  the  same  power  over  God.  And  no  pope, 
no  bisliop,  not  (iod  Almighty  Himself,  can  take  away  from  those 
bail,  drunken,  interdicted,  excommunicated  priests  that  super-di- 
vine power  of  changing  the  millions  of  loaves  of  bread  which 
are  on  this  globe  into  as  many  bodies,  souls,  divinities  of  Jesus 
Christ. 

For  instance,  do  not  the  bishops,  and  the  priests  of  Rome  tell 
their  people  that  I,  the  ex-priest  Chiniquy,  am  one  of  the  most 
wicked  men  the  world  has  ever  seen?  Yes!  this  is  what  they 
have  many  times  proclaimed  in  their  press  and  in  all  their  pulpits, 
on  the  five  continents  of  the  globe.  Well,  it  is  one  of  the  articles 
of  the  religion  taught  by  the  infallible  Church  of  Rome,  that  I, 
Chiniquy,  the  infamous,  the  interdicted,  excommunicated  priest, 
Chiniquy,  still  possess  that  supreme  power  over  the  God  of  Rome. 

Is  it  possible  to  find  a  more  cruel  and  infamous  being  than 
Archbishop  Purcell,  of  Cincinnati?  That  King  of  modern 
swindlers,  as  every  one  knows,  has  these  last  twenty  ye^rs, 
made  use  of  his  high  position  in  the  Church  of  Rome  to  induce 
thousands  and  thousands  of  his  poor  people  to  lend  and  trust  him 
their  money,  to  the  amount  of  nearly  four  millions  of  dollars. 
With  it  he  has  lived  in  luxury  with  his  dissoluted  nuns  and 
priests;  he  has  built  splendid  palaces,  and  a  magnificent  cathe- 
dral, where  he  has  been  worshipi)ed  as  a  god  during  many  years. 
But  when  the  day  came  for  refunding  the  money  into  the  hands 
of  tiie  poor  orphans  and  widows  who  had  trusted  him  their  last 
cent  he  coldly  rejected  them,  declared  bankrupt  and  retired  to 
one  of  his  palaces  to  continue  to  live  like  a  prince  in  the  midst 
of  his  nunsi  Well,  day  after  day,  for  twenty  years,  when  he 
was  working  that  great  iniquity,  he  ascended  his  altar,  took  the 
wafers  in  his  hands,  and  pronounced  the  magical  words,  "/^oc  cj/ 
cnim  corpus  meum^''  upon  them,  and  turned  them  into  his  god! 
That  God,  though  surely  unwilling  to  come  into  such  criminal 
liands,  though  abhorring  that  cruel  heart,  though  reproving  thjit 
guilty  soul,  was  forced  to  come  down,  in  person  into  those 
hands,  rest  in  that  heart,  and  unite  most  intimatelj'  and  person- 
ally with  that  soul !  That  infamous  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  has 
still  a  supreme,  direct,  personal,  irresistible  power  over  his  Jesus 
Christ.  The  Pope  can  interdict  and  excommunicate  him,  but 
he  can  not  deprive  him  of  that  supreme  power  which  he,  once 
for  all,  gave  him  over  his  God  Almighty  and  his  eternal  Son. 
That  eternal  and  Almighty  God  of  Rome  is  now  tied  to  the  will 
of  that  public  swindler  with  a  more  powerful  chain  than  the  vil- 
est dog  is  tied  by  his  chain  to  the  hand  of  his  master!  he  must 


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»9 

(follow  him  wherever  ht  „oes,  stops  where  he  stops,  go  right 
)r  left,  up  or  tlown,  according  a*  Archbishop  PurcelI,of  Cincin- 
Ktti,  wishes  him  to  go! 

Do  not  the  Rom.in  Ciitliolics  agree  with  the  Protestants,  in 

confessing  that  their  I'opc  A1w.xjiii<I«t  VI.  was  one  of  the  most 

linfamous  monsters  and  ilthauchees  the  world  has  ever  seen?    Do 

jthey  not  acknowledge  that,  »»ot  satisfied   with  living  in  public 

Iconcnbinage  with  his  own  sistci  -    lie  seduced  and  dishonored  his 

lovvn   (laughter,  Lucretia?       Is  there  not   a   perfect   unanimity 

lamong  the  historians  of  both   Roman  Catliolic  and  Protestant 

[persuasions  to  say  that  Pope  Alexander  VI.  nuist  he  put  at  the 

{head  of  the  monsters  who  have  overstepped  the  limits  of  human 

l<lepravity,  impiety  and  infamy?     But,  notwithstanding  all  that, 

[the  Church  of  Rome  assures  us  that  that  incarnated  devil  not 

[only  was  infallible,  but  that  he  never  lost  the  supreme,  personal 

and  direct  power  which  his  ordination  gave  him  over  the  Son  of 

I  God.     She  says  that  every  time  Alexander  VI.  pronounced  the 

)  words,  -^Hoc  est  cnim  corpus  meuin^''  over  a  wafer,  or  any  piece 

of  wheat  bread,  Christ  was  coming  quicker  than  lightning  into 

his  hands  to  be  manipulated,  insulted  by  him,  or  given  to  his 

concubines,  that  they  might  be  fed  with  His  true  body,  blood, 

soul  and  divinity  !     And  if  any  one  has  any  doubt  about  that,  he 

is  cursed  and  damned  by  the  Church  of  Rome.     Nay,  he  must 

jbe  burned  like  Wishart,  drowned  like  Mary  Lamb,  of  Perth,  or 

thrown  from  the  top  of  the  high  mountains  down  on  the  naked 

rocks,  like  thousands  and  thousands  in  Piedmont,  or  tortured  and 

slaughtered  as  so  many  millions  were  all  over  Europe,  by  the 

bloody  Inquisition. 

After  such  blasphemies,  who  can  have  the  least  doubt  that 
Roman  Catholicism  is  the  most  impious  and  satanic  religion  the 
world  has  ever  seen  ?  They  acknowledge  that  every  time  I  pro- 
nounce the  words,  '''-Hoc  est  enim  corpus  meum^''  over  a  wafer  or 
a  loaf  of  bread,  with  the  required  intention,  that  wafer  or  that 
loaf  of  bread  is  changed  into  the  body,  blood,  soul  and  divinity 
of  Jesus  Christ!  They  say  that  every  one  of  those  wafers  and 
loaves  of  bread  must  be  adored  by  the  people  under  pain  of 
eternal  damnation!  Does  not  the  Church  of  Rome  confess  by 
that  that  all  her  priests,  and  even  the  excommunicated  apostate 
Chiniquy,  as  she  calls  me,  are  stronger  than  her  poor,  weak,  mis- 
erable God?  He  can  not  resist  us?  ,  .  .  Though  He  is  angry 
against  me,  he  must  come  every  time  I  force  him  to  come  into 
that  wafer,  which  I  transform  into  Him;  though  he  is  absolute- 
ly opposed  to  my  doing  so;  though  He  must  be  horrified  to 
come  into  such  criminal  hands,  He  is  powerless  in  my  presence! 
At  my  word,  He  loses  His  divine  and  infinite  power  of  resist- 
ance! He  must  quickly  obey  me,  and  come  in  his  human  and 
divine  person  at  my  bidding,  into  my  hands.  He  must  let  me 
put  his  human  and  divine  person  into  my  tin  boxes,  transport 
Him  from  Montreal  to  San  Francisco,  from  San  Francisco  to 


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20 

New  York!  .  .  He,  the  poor  God  of  Rome,  can  not  help  it;  He 
must  follow  me  wherever  I  go,  and  he  must  silently  allow  me 
to  distribute  Him  into  the  hundreds  of  lecturing  meetings  I  have 
held,  or  will  hold,  in  the  various  cities  in  the  United  States. 

Does  not  the  Church  of  Rome  proclaim  by  that  horrible  dia- 
bolical doctrine  ^ which  is  her  doctrine)  that  not  only  her  good 
priests,  but  her  oad  and  renegade  priests,  are  mo'-e  above  God 
in  power,  dignity,  prerogatives, than  heaven  is  above  the  earth? 
Does  not  the  Pope  prove  by  that  horrible  doctrine  that  he  and 
his  priests  are  the  anti-Christ  of  whom  Paul  speaks? — "Who  op- 
poseth  and  exalteth  himself  above  all  that  is  called  God,  or  that 
is  worshipped :  so  that  he,  as  God,  sitteth  in  the  temple  of  God, 
showing  himself  that  he  is  a  God." — 2  Th.  ii. 

Where  can  we  find  that  "man  of  perdition,  who  exalteth  him- 
self above  God,"  if  he  is  not  the  Pope  and  his  priests,  who  boast 
that,  at  every  hour  of  day  or  night,  God  Almighty  is  bound  to 
come  at  their  bidding  into  that  little  cake,  and  when  there.  He  is 
absolutely  powerless  to  resist  them!  They  carry  Him  in  their 
vest  or  pants'  pocket;  they  drive  him  in  their  buggies  through 
the  cot;n<^ry,  or  force  Him  to  accompany  them  in  sailing  or  steam 
ships,  and  cross  the  seas  and  the  oceans;  shut  Him  up  in  their 
secret  chambers,  or  tabernacles,  where,  more  than  once,  the  rats 
and  mice  put  an  end  to  His  miserable  existence. 

For  let  not  the  Roman  Catholics  forget  that  their  God,  when 
once  under  the  spell  of  their  priests,  becomes  absolutely  impotent 
to  protect  his  divine  person  against  any  one  of  his  foes — nor 
even  against  any  one  of  the  elements  by  which  men  are  taught, 
and  apt  to  protect  themselves.  He  is  burned  in  the  fires  which 
attack  Him  in  His  secret  chambers;  He  is  drowned  in  the  rivers 
and  the  seas,  where  he  sometimes  falls  with  the  priests  who 
carry  Him  in  their  vest  or  pants'  pockets;  and  He  is  crushed  into 
atoms  under  the  wheels  of  the  cars  with  the  priests  who  have 
sometimes  the  misfortune  to  perish  in  those  terrible  railroad  ac- 
cidents. Though,  often,  man  can  protect  himself  against  the 
fire  by  rutniing  away,  the  poor  God  of  Rome  has  no  way  of  es- 
cape from  fire.  There  He  is,  absolutely  motionless  and  power- 
less before  the  devouring  flames.  He  can  neither  fly  away  on 
His  wings,  nor  run  away  with  His  feet. 

Man,  fallen  into  the  deep  waters  of  the  sea  or  endangered  by 
the  rapid  rivers,  has  often  saved  himself  by  swimming.  But  the 
impotent,  inert  God  of  Rome  can  not  swim;  He  must  perish 
there,  and  be  buried  in  that  watery  grave  without  even  being 
able  to  make  any  effort  to  prolong  his  miserable  and  humiliat- 
ing existence. 

How  many  times  I  have  heard,  in  Canada  and  the  United  States 
the  poor  deluded  Roman  Catholics'  lamentations,  when  the  fire 
had  destroyed  their  churches:  "Ohl  what  a  calamity!"  they 
cried ;  "the  good  God  is  burned."     "Z*  Son  Dieu  est  brule  /" 

But  I  consider  :♦  my  duty  to  put  before  the  intelligence  of  the 


ai 

loman  Catholics,  who  have  not  yet  entirely  silenced  the  voice  of 
Jtheir  reason,  a  new  consideration  which  their  Church  keeps,  as 
much  as  she  can,  out  of  sight.  In  her  sacred  book  of  the  mass 
[called  "Missale,"  she  acknowledges  that  several  times,  when  the 
[priest  has  eaten  the  wafer-god  and  drank  the  wine-god,  he  vomits 
[them  before  they  are  digested.  She  laments  much  over  those  sad 
[circumstances;  she  looks  really  distressed  when  she  sees  her  great 
[eternal  God  vomited  out  of  the  stomach  of  her  priests,  and  re- 
Ijected,  there,  on  the  floor,  in  the  midst  of  the  other  vomited 
[matter  in  which  he  is  seen  floating.  .  .  But  as  the  Church  of 
[Rome  is  infallible,  and  as  she  is  evidently  directed  by  the  Holy 
[Ghost  in  every  thing  she  does  and  says,  she  has  found,  in  her 
[divine  wisdom,  a  most  marvelous  remedy,  not  to  cure  the  sick 
[stomach  of  her  priests,  but  to  show  her  great  respect  for  her 
j  wafer-god.  .  .  When  the  priest  has  vomited  his  God  from  his 
stomach,  and  His  Divine  Majesty  is  seen  drowned  in  the  midst 
I  of  the  putrefled  and  stinking  matters  which  the  stomach  has  re- 
Ijected,  the  infallible,  holy,  apostolical  Church  of  Rome  invites 
[her  priests  to  eat  again  and  swallmu  what  he  has  vomited,  in 
;  order  that  her  glorified  Saviour  may  have  the  honor  to  pass  the 
[next  quarter  of  an  hour  in  the  sickly  stomach  of  her  priests! 

What  a  grand  and  sublime  spectacle  the  Church  of  Rome 
[presents  here,  to  the  admiration,  nay,  the  adoration,  of  man! 
[Who  will  not  confess  that  she  has  the  true  marks,  of  the  holy, 
pure,  undefiled  Church  of  Christ,  when  she  asks  you  to  come 
and  adore  her  great  God  and  Saviour,  there,  on  the  floor,  swim- 
[ming  or  flonting  in  the  midst  of  the  vomited  matters  rejected  by 
the  sick  stomach!  and  that,  to  show  you  with  what  profound  re- 
spect and  adoration  you  must  look  upon  her  Divine  Redeemer, 
[she  requests  her  priests  to  swallow  again  what  he  has  vomited! 

Now,  I  ask — Was  it  possible  for  the  devil  to  invent  anything 
[more  insulting  to  God  and  man  than  that  abominable  dogma  of 
[Transubstantiation?     Could  the  Divine  person  of  God  and  His 
i  Christ  be  more  outraged,  insulted  and  degraded,  than  by  that  lie 
I  which  makes  man  believe  that  he  may  make  his  god  with  a  little 
icake,  eat  it,  vomit  it,  and  swallow  it  again?     Has  the  great  God 
[of  Heaven  and  earth  been  ever  outraged  or  insulted  by  the  an- 
scient  or  modern  heathen  nations  as  He  is  to-day,  when  He  is  said 
[to  be  personally  vomited  from  the  stomach  of  a  miserable  man; 
'personally  swimming  and  floating  in  the  putrified  rejects  of  the 
Pope's  stomach?     Is  it  not  evident  that  the  impious  dogma  of 
Transubstantiation   is  the  last,   the    utmost  limit  of  the  lies  of 
Satan?     Is  not  that  blasphemous  dogma  the  last  limit  of  the 
blasphemies  by  which  hell  could  insult  God?     Is  it  not  evident 
that,  when  that  dogma  raises  the  Pope  of  Rome  infinitely  above 
<Jod  in  power  and  dignity,  it  brings  down   the  Divine  and  eter- 
nal person  of  God  into  the  most  degrading,  humiliating  position 
into  which  any  being  can  be  degraded? 

Satan,  not  being  al)le  to  kill  our  great  God,  has  at  last  succeed- 


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ed,  through  the  Pope,  to  drag  Him  down  from  His  throne  and 
drown  Him  in  the  vomited  matters  rejected  by  the  stomach  of 
the  priest!  What  a  triumph  for  Satan  in  his  war  against  God 
and  His  beloved  and  eternal  Son !  What  a  victory,  when  he 
could  persuade  man  that  he  had  the  power  to  create  the  God  of 
Calvary  with  a  wafer,  eat  him,  vomit  him  and  swallow  him  again  I 
Evidently,  Transubstantiation  is  the  masterpiece  of  the  devil. 
And  if  anyone  has  any  doubt  about  this,  let  him  come  and  see 
what  I  have  seen  several  times,  when  a  priest;  let  him  come  and 
see  what  the  Church  of  Rome  acknowledges  to  happen 
oftener  than  people  suspect.  Yes,  let  those  who  are  not  certain 
that  Transubstantiation  is  the  most  stupendous  blasphemy  which 
has  come  out  from  hell,  come  and  see  the  priest  of  Rome  crea- 
ting his  god  with  a  wafer,  vomiting  him,  and  swallowing  him 
again,  to  vomit  him  a  second  time  as  is  generally  the  case.  For 
it  is  next  to  impossible  for  the  stomach  to  keep  a  second  time 
putrid  matter  it  has  once  ejected.  When  looking  with  amaze- 
ment, at  that  horrible  spectacle,  he  will  surely  hear  a  voice  from 
heaven  whispering  in  his  ears — "For  this  cause,  God  shall  send 
them  strong  delusion,  that  they  believe  a  lie;  that  they  all  might 
be  damned  who  believed  not  the  truth,  but  had  pleasure  of  un- 
righteousness." 


THE  COD  OF  ROME  EATEN  BY  A  RAT. 

Has  God  given  us  ears  to  hear,  eyes  to  see,  and  intelligence  to 
understand?  The  Pope  says  no!  But  the  Son  of  God  says:  Yes. 
One  of  the  most  severe  rebukes  of  our  Saviour  to  His  disciples 
was  for  their  not  paying  a  si'^icient  attention  to  what  their  eyes 
had  seen,  their  ears  heard  and  their  intelligence  perceived.  "Per- 
ceive ye  not,  neither  understand?  Have  ye  your  heart  yet 
hardened?  Having  eyes,  see  ye  not;  having  ears,  hear  ye  not? 
and  do  not  ye  remember?" — (Mark  viii.  17,  18.) 

This  solemn  appeal  of  our  Saviour  to  our  common  sense  is  the 
most  complete  demolition  of  the  whole  fabric  of  Rome.  The 
day  that  a  man  ceases  to  believe  that  God  would  give  us  our 
senses  and  our  intelligence  to  ruin  and  deceive  us,  but  that  they 
were  given  to  guide  us,  he  is  lost  to  the  Church  of  Rome.  The 
Pope  knows  it;  hence  the  innumerable  encyclicals,  laws  and  reg- 
ulations by  which  the  Roman  Catholics  are  warned  not  to  trust 
the  testimony  of  their  ears,  eyes  or  intelligence. 

"Shut  your  eyes,"  says  the  Pope  to  his  priests  and  people;  "I 
will  keep  mine  opened,  and  1  will  see  for  you.  Shut  your  ears 
for  it  is  most  dangerous  for  you  to  hear  what  is  said  in  the  world, 
I  will  keep  my  ears  opened,  and  will  tell  you  what  you  must 
know.  Remember,  that  to  trust  your  own  intelligence,  in  the 
research  of  truth  and  the  knowledge  of  the  Word  of  God,  is  sure 


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j)erdition.  If  you  want  to  know  anything,  come  to  me ;  I  am  the 
lonly  sure  and  infallible  fountain  of  truth,"  says  the  Pope. 

And  this  stupendous  imposture  is  accepted  hy  the  people  and 
[the  priests  of  Rome  with  a  mysteiious  facility,  and  retained  with 
{a  most  desolating  tenacity. 

It  is  to  them  what  the  iron  ring  is  to  the  nose  of  the  ox,  when 
la  rope  is  once  tied  to  it.  The  poor  animal  loses  its  self-control; 
[its  natural  strength  and  energies  will  avail  it  nothing;  it  must  go 
[left  or  right,  at  the  will  of  the  one  who  holds  the  end  of  the  rope. 
Reader,  please  have  no  contempt  for  the  unfortunate  priests 
land  people  of  Rome,  but  pity  them  when  you  see  them  walking 
[in  the  ways  into  which  intelligent  beings  ought  not  to  make  a 
[step.  They  cannot  help  it.  The  ring  of  the  ox  is  at  their  nose, 
[and  the  Pope  holds  the  end  of  the  rope. 

Had  it  not  been  for  that  ring,  I  would  not  have  been  long  at 
[the  feet  of  the  WAKER-GOi)  of  Rome.      Let  me   tell   one  of  the 

shining  rays  of  truth,  which  were  evidently  sent  by  our  merciful 
[God,  with  a  mighty  power  to  open  my  eyes.  But  I  could  not 
[follow  it;  the  iron  ring  was  at  my  nose,  and  the  Pope  was  hold- 
ling  the  end  of  the  rope. 

This  was  after  I  had  been  put  at  the  head  of  the  magnificent 
[parish  of  Beauport,  in  the  spring  of  1838.      There  was  living  at 

"La  Jeune  Lorette"  an  old  retired  priest,  who  was  blind.  He  was 
[born  in  France,  where  he  had  been  condemned  to  death,  under 
[the  Reign  of  Terror.  Escaped  from  the  guillotine,  he  had  Hed  to 
jCanada,  where  the  Bishop  of  Quebec  had  i)ut  him  in  the  eleva- 
Ited  post  of  Chaplain  of  the  I'^rsuline  Nunnery.  He  had  a  fine 
[voice,  was  a  good  musician,  and  had  some])retensions  to  the  title 
[of  poet.  Having  composed  a  good  number  of  Church  hymns,  he 
[had  been  called  "Pere  Cantique;"  but  his  real  name  was  "Pere 
jDaule."     His  faith  and  piety  were  of  the  most  exalted  character 

among  the  Roman  Catholics;  though  this  did  not  prevent  him 
[from  being  one  of  the  most  amiable  and  jovial  men  I  ever  saw. 
[But  his  blue  eyes,  sweet  as  the  eyes  of  the  dove;  his  fine  yellow 
[hair,  falling  on  his  shoulders  as  a  golden  Heece;  his  white  rosy 
[cheeks  and  his  constantly  smiling  lips  had  been  too  much  for  the 
[tender  hearts  of  the  good  nuns.     It  was  not  a  secret  that  "Pere 

Cantique,"  when  young,  had  made  several  interesting  conquests 
[when  in  the  monastery.  There  was  no  wonder  at  that.  Indeed, 
[how  could  that  young  and  inexperienced  l)utterfly  escape  dam- 
aging his  golden  wings  at  the  numberless  burning  lamps  of  the 
[fair  virgins?  But  the  mantle  of  charity  had  been  put  on  the 
(wounds  which  the  old  warrior  had  received  on  that  formidable 
[battle-field,  from  which  even  the  Davids,  Samsons,  Solomons  and 
[many  others  had  escaped  only  after  being  mortally  wounded. 

To  helj)  the  poor  blind  priest,  the  curates  around  Quebec  used 
[to  keep  him,  by  turns,  in  their  parsonages,  and  give  him  the  care 
land  marks  of  respect  due  to  his  old  age.      After  the   Rev.    Mr. 

Roy,  curate  of  Charlesbourg,  had  kept  him   five  or  six  weeks,  I 


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had  taken  him  to  my  j)arsonage.  It  was  in  the  month  of  May — 
a  month  entirely  consecrated  to  the  worship  of  the  Virgin  Mary, 
to  whom  Father  Daule  was  a  most  devoted  priest.  He  was  really 
inexhaustible,  when  trying  to  prove  to  us  how  Mary  was  the 
surest,  the  only  foundation  of  the  hope  and  salvation  of  sinners; 
how  she  was  constantly  appeasing  the  just  wrath  of  her  Son 
Jesus,  who,  were  it  not  for  his  love  and  respect  to  her,  would 
have  long  since  crushed  us  down. 

The  Councils  of  Rome  have  forbidden  the  blind  priests  to  say 
their  mass;  but  on  account  of  his  high  piety,  he  had  got  from 
the  Pope  the  privilege  of  celebrating  the  short  mass  of  the  Vir- 
gin, which  he  knew  perfectly  by  heart.  One  morning  when  the 
good  old  priest  was  at  the  altar  saying  his  mass,  and  I  was  in  the 
vestry  hearing  the  confession  of  the  people,  the  young  servant 
boy  came  to  me  in  haste,  and  said,  "Father  Daule  calls  you; 
please  come  quick." 

Fearing  something  wrong  had  happened  to  my  old  friend,  I 
lost  no  time  and  ran  to  him.  I  found  him  nervously  lapping  the 
altar  with  his  two  hands,  as  in  an  anxious  search  for  some  very 
precious  thing.  When  very  near  to  him,  I  said,  "What  do  you 
want?"  He  answered  with  a  shriek  of  distress,  "The  good  god 
has  disappeared  from  the  altar.     .     ,  He  is  lost!    J'ai  perdu 

le  Bon  Dieu.     ...     II  est  disparu  de  dessus  I'autel!" 

Hoping  that  he  was  mistaken  and  that  he  had  only  thrown 
away  the  good  god  (Le  Bon  Dieu)  on  the  floor  by  some  acci- 
dent, I  looked  on  the  altar — at  his  feet — everywhere  I  could  sus- 
pect that  the  gooti  god  might  have  been  moved  away  by  some 
mistake  of  the  hand.  But  the  most  minute  search  was  of  no  avail ; 
the  good  god  could  not  be  found.  I  really  felt  stunned.  At 
first,  remembering  the  thousand  miracles  I  had  read  about  the 
disappearance,  marvelous  changes  of  form  of  the  wafer-god,  it 
came  to  my  mind  that  we  were  in  the  presence  of  some  great 
miracle,  and  that  my  eyes  were  to  see  some  of  those  great  mar- 
vels of  which  the  books  of  the  Church  of  Rome  are  filled.  But 
I  had  soon  to  change  my  mind,  when  a  thought  flashed  through 
my  memory  which  chilled  the  blood  in  my  veins. 

The  church  of  lieauport  was  inhabited  by  a  multitude  of  the 
boldest  and  most  insolent  rats  I  had  ever  seen.  Many  times, 
when  saying  my  mass,  1  had  seen  the  ugly  nose  of  several  of 
them,  who,  undoubtedly  attracted  by  the  smell  of  the  fresh  wafer, 
wanted  to  make  their  breakfast  with  the  body,  blood,  soul  and 
divinity  of  my  poor  Roman  Catholic  Christ.  But,  at  I  was  con- 
stantly in  motion,  or  praying  with  a  loud  voice,  the  rats  had  in- 
variably been  frightened,  and  tied  away  into  their  secret  quarters. 
I  felt  terror- str lick  by  the  thought  that  the  good  god  (Le  Bon 
Dien)  had  been  taken  away  and  eaten  by  the  rats. 

Father  Daule  so  sincerely  believed  what  all  the  priests  of  Rome 
are  bound  to  believe — that  he  had  the  power  to  turn  the  wafer  into 
God — that,  after  he  had  jironounced  the  words  by  which  the  great 


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irvel  was  wrought,  he  used  to  pass  from  five  to  fifteen  minutes 

silent  adoration.  He  was  then  as  motionless  as  a  marble  statue, 

)id  his  feelings  were  so  strong  that  often  torrents  of  tears  used 

flow  from  his  eyes  to  his  cheeks.     Leaning  my  head  towards 

\e  distressed  old  priest,  I  said  to  him  have  you  not  remained, 

you  are  used,  a  long  time  motionless,  in  adoring  the  good  god 

rter  the  consecration?" 

He  quickly  answered,  "Yes !     But  what  has  this  to  do  with 
^e  loss  of  the  good  god?" 
I  replied  in  a  low  voice,  but  with  a  real  accent  of  distress  and 
fc,  "Some  rats  have  dragged  and  eaten  the  good  god!!!" 
"What  do  you  say?"  replied  Father  Daule:  "the  good  god 
irried  away  and  eaten  by  rats?" 

"Yes,"  I  replied,  "I  have  not  the  least  doubt  about  it." 

"My  God!     My  God!     What  a  dreadful  calamity  upon  me !" 

kjoined  the  old  man ;  and  raising  his  hands  and  his  eyes  to  heaven, 

cried  out  again,  "My  God!     My  God!      Why  have  you  not 

jlken  away  my  life,  before  such  a  misfortune  could  fall  upon  me?" 

He  could  not  speak  any  longer;  his  voice  was  choked  by  his 

>bs. 

At  first,  I  did  not  know  what  to  say;  a  thousand  thoughts, 
)me  very  grave,  some  exceedingly  ludicrous,  crossed  my  mind 
^ore  rapidly  than  I  can  say  them.  I  stood  there  as  nailed  to  the 
)or,  by  the  side  of  the  old  priest,  who  was  weeping  as  a  child, 
til  he  asked  me,  with  a  voice  broken  by  his  sobs,  "What  must 
[do,  now?" 

I  answered  him,  "The  Church  has  foreseen  occurrences  of  this 
|ind,  and  provided  for  them  the  remedy.     The  only  thing  you 
lave  to  do  is  to  get  a  new  wafer,   consecrate  it,  and  continue 
)ur  mass,  as  if  nothing  strange  had  occurred.      I  will  go  and 
Jet  you,  just  now,  a  new  bread." 
I  went  without  losing  a  moment,  to  the  vestry,  got  and  brought 
new  wafer  which  he  consecrated  and  turned  into  a  new  god, 
id  finished  his  mass  as  I  had  told  him.     After  it  was  over,  I 
)ok  the  disconsolate  old  priest  by  the  hand  to  my  parsonage,  for 
reakfast.     But  all  along  the  way  he  rent  the  air  with  his  cries 
Jf  distress.     He   would   hardly  taste   anything,   for  his  soul  was 
;ally  drowned  in  a  sea  of  disconsolation.     I  vainly  tried  to  calm 
is  feelings,  by  telling  him   that  there   was  no  fault  of  his ;  that 
lis  strange  and  sad  occurrence  was  not  the  first   of  that  kind; 
Kit  it  had  been  calmly  foreseen  by  the  Church,  which  has  told  as 
^hat  to  do  in  these  circumstances;  that  there  was  no  neglect,  no 
iiilt,  no  offence  against  God  or  man  on  his  part. 
But  as  he  would  not  pay  the  least  attention  to  what  I  said,  I  felt 
le  only  thing  I  had  to  do  was  to  remain  silent  and  respect  his  grief 
|y  letting  him  unburden  his  heart  by  his  lamentations  and  tears. 
1  hoped  that  his  good  common   sense  would  help  him  to  over- 
come his  feelings,  but  I  was  mistaken;  his  lamentations  were  as 
)ng  as  those  of  Jeremiah,  and  the  expressions  of  his  grief  as  bitter. 


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At  last,  I  lost  patience,  and  said:  "My  dear  Father  Daule, 
allow  me  to  tell  you,  respectfully,  that  it  is  quite  time  to  stop  those 
lamentations  and  tears.  Our  great  and  just  God  cannot  like  such 
an  excess  of  sorrow  and  regret  about  a  thing  which  was  only  and 
entirely  under  the  control  of  His  power  and  eternal  wisdom." 

"What  do  you  say  there?"  replied  the  old  priest,  with  a 
vivacity  which  resembled  anger. 

"I  say  that  as  it  was  not  in  your  power  to  foiesee  or  avoid 
that  occurrence,  you  have  not  the  least  reason  to  act  and  speak  as 
you  do.  Let  us  keep  our  regrets  and  our  tears  for  our  sins;  we 
have  both  committed  many,  and  we  cannot  weep  for  them  too 
much.  But  there  is  no  sin  here ;  and  there  must  be  some  reasonable 
limits  to  our  sorrow.  If  anybody  had  to  weep  and  regret  with 
out  measure  what  has  happened,  it  would  be  Christ.  For  he 
alone  could  foresee  that  event,  and  He  alone  could  prevent  it. 
Had  it  been  His  will  to  oppose  this  sad  and  mysterious  fact,  it  was 
in  His,  not  in  our  power,  to  prevent  it.  He  alone  has  suffered 
from  it,  because  it  was  His  will  to  suffer  it." 

"Mr.  Chiniquy,"  he  replied,  "you  are  quite  a  young  man;  and 
I  see  you  have  the  want  of  attention  and  experience  which  are 
too  often  seen  among  young  priests.  You  do  not  pay  a  sufficient 
attention  lo-the  awful  calamity  which  has  just  occurred  in  your 
Church.  If  you  had  more  faith  and  piety,  you  would  weep  with 
me,  instead  of  laughing  at  my  grief.  How  can  you  speak  so 
lightly  of  a  thing  which  makes  the  angels  of  God  weep?  Our 
dear  Saviour  dragged  and  eaten  by  rats !  Oh !  great  God !  does 
not  this  surpass  the  humiliation  and  horrors  of  Calvary?" 

"My  dear  Father  Daule,"  I  replied,  "allow  me  respectfully 
to  tell  you  that  I  understand,  as  well  as  you  do,  the  nature  of  the 
deplorable  event  of  this  morning.  I  would  have  given  my  blood 
to  prevent  it.  Kut  let  us  look  at  the  fact  in  its  proper  light;  it 
is  not  a  moral  action  for  us;  it  did  not  depend  on  our  will  more 
than  the  spots  on  the  sun.  The  only  one  who  is  accountable  for 
that  fact  is  our  Ciod  I  For,  again  I  say,  that  He  was  the  only 
one  who  could  see  and  prevent  it.  And  to  give  you,  plainly, 
my  own  mind,  I  tell  you  here,  that  if  I  were  God  Almighty,  and 
a  miserable  rat  would  come  and  try  to  eat  me,  I  would  strike  it 
dead  before  it  could  touch  me." 

These  is  no  need  of  confessing  it  here;  every  one  who  reads 
these  lines,  and  pays  attention  to  this  conversation,  will  under- 
stand that  my  former  so  robust  faith  in  r.-iy  priestly  power  of 
changing  the  wafer  into  my  god  had  melted  3way  and  evaporated 
from  my  mind,  if  not  entirely,  at  least  t..   a  ^reat  extent. 

Great  and  new  lights  had  flashed  thio.:ghmy  soul  in  that  hour 
Evidently  my  merciful  (Jod  wanted  to  epen  my  eyes  to  the  awful 
absurdities  and  impieties  of  a  religion  whose  God  could  be  drag- 
ged and  eaten  by  rats.  Had  I  been  faithful  to  the  saving  lights 
which  were  in  me  then,  I  was  saved  in  that  very  hour:  and  before 
the  end  of  that  day,  I  would  have  broken  the  shameful  chains  by 


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lich  the  Pope  had  tied  my  neck  to  his  idol  of  bread.     In  that 
wr,  it  seemed  to  me  evident  that  the  dogma  of  Transubstantia- 
lon  was  a  most  monstrous  imposture,    and  my  priesthood   an 
Isult  to  God  and  man. 

My  intelligence  said  to  me,  with  a  thundering  voice,  "Do  not 
smain  any  longer  the  priest  of  a  god  whom  you  make  every 
lay,  and  whom  the  rats  can  eat." 

Though  blind,   Father   Daule   understood   well,   by   the  stern 
kccents  of  my  voice,  that  my  faith  in  that  god  whom  he  had 
freated  that  morning,  and  whom  the  rats  had  eaten,  had  been 
jriously  modified,  if  not  entirely  crumbled  down.     He  remained 
^ilent  for  some  time;  after  which  he  invited  me  to  sit  by  him.   He 
len  spoke  to  me  with  a  pathos  and   authority  which  my  youth 
knd  his  old  age  alone  could  justify.     He  gave  me  the  most  awful 
[ebuke  I  ever  had;  he  really  opened  on  my  poor  wavering  intelli- 
jence,  soul  and  heart  all  the  cataracts  of  heaven.      He   over- 
whelmed me  with  a  deluge  of  holy  Fathers,   Councils  and  Infal- 
lible Popes,  who,  he  assured  me,  had  believed  and  preached,  be- 
JTore  the  whole  world,  in  all  ages,  the  dogma  of  Transubstantiation. 
If  I  had  paid  attention  to  the  voice  of  my  intelligence,  and  ac- 
:epted  the  lights  which  my  my  merciful  God  was  giving  me,  I  could 
lave  easily  smashed  the  arguments  of  the  old  priest.     But  what 
las  human  intelligence  to  do  in  the  Church  of  Rome?      What 
icould  my  intelligence  say?     I  was  forbidden  to  hear  it.      What 
[was  the  weight  of  my  poor  isolated  intelligence  when  put  in  the 
(balance  against  so  many  learned,  holy,  infallible  intelligences? 

Alas!  I  was  not  aware  then  that  the  weight  of  the  intelligence 
f of  God  the  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Ghost  was  on  my  side;  and 
I  that,  weighted  against  the  intelligence  of  the  Popes,  they  were 
[greater  than  all  the  worlds  against  a  grain  of  sand. 

One  hour  after,  shedding  tears  of  regret,  I  was  at  the  feet  of 
[Father  Daule,  in  the  confessional-box,  confessing  the  great  sin  I 
[had  committed  by  doubting,  for  a  moment,  of  the  power  of  the 
[priest  to  change  the  wafer  into  God. 

The  old  priest,  whose  voice  had  been  like  a  lion's  voice,  when 

[speaking  to   the  unbelieving   curate  of  Beauport,  had   become 

[sweet  as  the  voice  of  a  lamb,  when  he  had  me  at  his  feet  confess- 

jing  my  unbelief.     He  gave  me  my  pardon.      For  my  penance, 

Ihe  forbade  me  ever  to  say  a  word  on  the  sad  end  of  the  god  he 

rhad  created  that  morning;  because,  said  he,  "This  would  destroy 

the  faith  of  the  most  sincere  Roman  Catholics."      For  the  other 

part  of  the  penance,  I  had  to  go  on  my  knees  every  day,  during 

nine  days,  before  the  fourteen  images  of  the  way  of  the  cross,  and 

say  a  penitential  psalm  before  every  picture :  which  I  did.      But 

the  sixth  day,  the  skin  of  my  knees  was  pierced,   and  the  blood 

was  flowing  freely.     I  suffered  real  torture  every  time  I   knelt 

down  and  at  every  step  I  made.     But  it  seemed  to  me  that  these 

terrible  tortures  were  nothing  compared  to  my  great  iniquity. 

I  had  refused  for  a  moment,  to  believe  that  a  man  can  create 


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his  god  with  a  wafer  I  and  I  had  thought  that  a  Church  which 
adores  a  god  eaten  by  rats  must  be  an  idolatrous  Church! 


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MARIOLATRY. 

The  learned  Cardinal  Gibbons,  through  his  eloquent  priest, 
Lynch,  denied  some  time  ago,  that  the  Virgin  Mary  is  adored 
and  put  above  Christ  in  the  Church  of  Rome. 

This  denial,  in  the  face  of  the  undeniable  facts  which  I  will 
bring  forth,  is  really  one  of  the  most  inexplicable  mysteries. 

If  there  is  a  thing  which  is  as  evident  as  two  and  two  make 
four,  it  is  that  Romanism  is  the  old  idolatry  of  Bablyon,  Egypt 
and  Rome,  under  a  Christian  mask.  But  this  new  form  of  idol- 
atry is  so  boldly  denied  by  some  of  the  great  dignitaries  of  Rome, 
and  so  skillfully  concealed  by  otheis,  under  the  spotless  lobe  of 
Jesus,  that  not  only  the  too  unsuspecting  nominal  Protestants, 
but  even  the  "\ory  elect,"  are  in  danger  of  being  entrapped  and 
deceived. 

(Jo  to  the  magnificent  cathedrals,  as  well  as  to  the  humblest 
chapels  of  .the  Church  of  Rome,  if  you  had  any  knowledge  of 
the  old  mythology,  and  you  will  see  that,  to-day,  Minerva,  Juno, 
Venus  are  worshipped  under  the  sweet  and  blessed  name  of  Mary ; 
they  see  again  the  clouds  of  incense  burning  on  their  altars,  and 
the  multitude  of  male  and  female  devotees  humbly  prostrated  at 
the  feet  of  their  idols,  asking  them  now,  as  formerly,  to  appease 
the  wrath  of  their  angry  God.  But,  to-day,  very  few  read  the 
books  which  could  throw  any  light  on  that  subject,  and  among 
the  few  who  read  these  books,  unfortunately,  the  greater  part 
remain  under  the  impression  that  there  is  a  great  deal  of  exag- 
geration in  what  is  said  by  Protestants  against  Rome. 

When  they  meet  a  Roman  Catholic  priest,  or  still  more,  a 
bishop,  it  seems  to  those  Protestants  a  want  of  fairness,  courtesy 
and  Christian  charity  to  accuse,  or  even  suspect,  such  refined 
gentlemen  of  idolatry. 

It  is  that  misguided  charity,  founded  on  sheer  ignorance,  which 
paralyzes  to  day  the  arm  of  the  Church  of  Christ  everywhere, 
and  makes  the  Church  of  Rome  so  bold  and  so  strong  that  she 
is  carrying  almost  everything  before  her  in  Great  Britain,  the 
United  States,  in  Canada,  and  even  in  Australia.  In  consequence 
of  that  misguided  charity,  foin»ded  on  the  criminal  ignorance  of 
modern  Protestants,  the  Church  of  Rome  is  surely  marching  to 
the  conciuest  of  England  and  the  United  States,  and,  through 
them  to  the  concjuest  of  the  world,  except  (»od  Almighty  inter- 
feres, by  a  miracle,  to  stop  her  triumphs.  To-day,  the  great 
Captain  of  our  salvation  sees  his  armies  filled  with  multitudes 
who  think  more  to  live  in  peace  with  their  implacable  enemy 
than  to  fight  him.      For  the  foe  has  so  skillfully  given  to  his  re- 


»9 

^Uious  Hag  the  colors  and  appearance  of  the  loyal  one,  that  the 

tception  is  as  complete  as  it  is  deplorable  in  its  effects. 

It  is  to  open  the  eyes  of  the  good  but  too  confident  Protestants 

Baltimore  that  I  write  this  short  treatise  to  show  that  Cardinal 

gibbons  and  all  the  priests  of  Rome,  in   spite  of  their  denials. 

It  the  Virgin  Mary  much  above  Christ,  and  that  they  attribute 

her  powers,  honors  and  praises  which  ought  to  be  given  to  God 

lone. 

But  like  the  horse  thief,  the  Church  of  Rome  has  a  thousand 
rays  to  conceal  this,  her  great  iniquity.  If  you  meet  the  thief 
iding  on  the  very  horse  he  has  just  stolen,  and  ask  him  whose 
|orse  he  is  riding,  he  has  the  most  ingenious  stories  at  hand  to 
wove  that  he  is  honest;  that  there  is  nothing  wrong  about  the 
iray  he  got  that  horse.  He  assures  you  that  he  has  bought  it  in 
fuch  a  town,  or  from  such  a  traveler,  or  that  he  has  borrowed  it,  or 
jund  it  loose  on  the  highway,  and  took  it  for  a  moment,  with 
le  honest  determination  to  send  it  back  to  the  owner.  So  it  is 
irith  the  soul-stealing  Church  of  Rome.  Luther,  Calvin,  Knox 
ind  a  million  other  unimpeachable  witnesses  and  martyrs,  have 
letected  that  "hurch  in  the  J/agran/e  delicto  of  idolatry.  They 
lave  proved  their  charges  with  the  clearest;  the  most  crushing 
jvidence.  But,  at  every  time,  she  has  denied  her  guilt  with  an 
Impudence  which  makes  one  remember  the  great  Father  of  lies 
vho  deceived  our  first  parents  in  the  garden  of  Eden. 

But  I  have  been  twenty-five  years  one  of  those — not  horse- 
thieves,  but  soul-thieves  and  soul-murderers.  I  know  all  their 
jreat  and  small  tricks,  all  their  pious  lies,  all  their  dark  caves  and 
light  recesses.  I  have  been  a  quarter  of  a  century  swimming  in 
the  filthy  waters  in  which  the  poor  priests  and  the  haughty 
:ardinals,  and  bishops  are  plunged,  and,  with  the  grace  of  God, 
Jl  will  show  that  Rome  is  idolatrous  in  her  worship  of  Mary,  with 
[such  proofs  that  Cardinal  Gibbons  will  not  dare  to  deny  them. 

There  is  a  book  in  the   Church  of  Rome   which  is   esteemed 

[sacred    above  every   other  book.       It   is  called    "Breviarium." 

[Every  bishop  and  priest  of  Rome  is  bound,  und^r  pain  of  eternal 

[damnation,  to  read  every  word  of  it  at  least  once  a  year.     Among 

[the  things  that  the  learned  bishop  is  bound  to  read,  repeat  and 

•believe,  from  the  bottom  of  his  heart,  every  week  to  the  glory  of 

[Mary,  from  that  book  are  the  following  words:  "Gaude,  Virgo 

Maria,  quia  cunctas  hereses  sola  interemisti  in  universo  mundo ;" 

"Rejoice,  Virgin  Mary,  for  thou  alone  hath   destroyed   all   the 

heresies  in  the  whole  world." 

Of  course,  to  address,  in  the  presence  of  God  and  man,  these 
blasphemous  words  to  Mary;  to  believe  that  the  Virgin  Mary 
ALONE  has  destroyed  "all"  heresies  which  were  in  the  world, 
the  unfortunate  priests  and  bishops  of  Rome  must  silence  the 
voice  of  reason,  which  tells  them  that  this  is  sheer  absurdity  and 
nonsense;  they  must  silence  the  voice  of  the  conscience,  which 
tells  them  that  this  is  a  blasphemous  as  well  as  a  ridiculous  lie ; 


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they   must  make    asses  of  themselves    to    i)lease  their   modern 
goddess. 

For  if  there  is  a  thing  \vhi(  h  is  evident,  it  is  that  God  has  never 
yet  seen  fit  to  destroy  all  the  heresies  in  the  world.  Go  and  con- 
sult the  theologians  of  Rome.  Ask  them  when  all  the  heresies 
had  been  destroyed  in  the  world,  and  they  will  answer  you  there 
has  never  been  such  happy  days.  Nay,  they  will  assure  you  that 
all  the  old  heresies  have  been  continued,  i)reached  and  revived 
by  the  arch  heretics  Luther,  Calvin,  Zuingle,  Knox,  Chiniquy, 
etc.  If.  from  the  theologians  of  Rome  you  go  to  consult  the 
Roman  Catholic  historians,  and  ask  them  to  tell  you  when  all 
the  heresies  were  destroyed,  and  the  heretics  confounded  and 
silenced,  they  will,  without  a  dissenting  voice,  answer  you  that 
this  is  one  of  the  most  egregious  and  stupendou.s  lies  that  the 
world  has  ever  heard.  They  will  unanimously  t^^V  you  that  God 
Almighty -has  never  extinguished  and  destroyed  all  the  heresies 
which  were  in  the  world. 

But  to  show  to  the  Roman  Catholics  how  the  Virgin  Mary  is 
above  God,  the  Roman  Catholic  Cardinal  of  Baltimore  tells 
them  at  least  once  a  week,  "that  the  Virgin  Mary  alone  has 
destroyed  all  the  heresies  which  were  in  the  world!" 

What  would  be  the  feelings  and  the  surprise  of  the  Virgin 
Mary  if  she  heard  from  the  lips  of  those  reverend  high  dignita- 
ries of  Rome  that  i)ious  lie  procla  iT>ed  at  the  feet  of  her  altars? 

Many  among  the  admirers  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  will  hardly 
believe  me,  when  I  tell  them  he  has  to  proclaim  that  puerile  false- 
hood once  a  week  I  But  it  is  an  undeniable  fact.  If,  in  his  hon- 
esty and  in  his  perfect  knowledge,  he  refuses  to  proffer  that  theo- 
logical as  well  as  historical  and  scriptural  falsehood,  and  shrinks 
from  rei)eating  it,  his  infallible  church  tells  him  that  he  will  be 
forever  damned  I  And  T  here,  publicly,  challenge  him  to  deny  it. 
In  the  famous  encyclical  of  Pope  Gregory  XVI.  (the  prede- 
cessor of  I'ius  IX.)  against  liberty  of  conscience,  dated  September 
i(S,  18,32,  which  begins  with  these  words:  "Mirari  vos,"  we  read: 
"Sed  ut  omnia  hac  prospere  et  feliciter  eveniant,  levemus  occulos 
manusgue  ad  sanclissiman  Virginem  Mariam,  quaj  sola  universas 
hiereses  interemit,  nostra  que  maxima  fiducia,  imo,  Tota  ratio  est 
spei  nostriu." 

"But,  in  order  that  we  may  receive  all  these  blessings,  let  us 
raise  oiu'  eyes  and  our  hands  to  the  most  holy  Virgin  Mary,  who 
Ai.oNi;  has  deslroyc'd  all  the  heresies;  who  is  the  surest  foundation 
of  our  hope;  nay,  who  is  all  the  foundation  of  our  hope." 

Here,  the  infallible  I'ope  says  again,  "ex-cathedra,"  in  his 
must  infallible  way.  that  tho  holy  Virgin  Mary,  alone,  by  her 
power  without  the  help  of  God,  alonk,  has  destroyed  all  the  here- 
sies I  But,  fearing  lest  this  infinite  power  given  to  Mary  may 
not  sufficiently  convey  the  super-Divine  power  of  that  almighty 
(jueen  of  heaven  and  earth,  the  infallible  Pope  adds  that  the 
Virgin  Mary  is  "all  the   foundation"   of  the  hope   of  mankind! 


3« 

•'ilic  gioatest  (m:irk  tlic  word    *maxiina')    source    of  tlicir   confi- 
dence !" 

Voii  see  that  if  Cardinal  (m1)1)oiis  is  allowed  to  jiut  a  great 
»  onfidenco  in  Christ,  he  is  bound,  by  his  church,  to  put  his  great- 
e>l  ("maxima")  confidence  in  Mary  I 

I  congratulate  the  learned  Roman  Catholic  Cardinal  of  Balti- 
more, who  seems  to  have  the  good  sense  not  to  put  all  his  confi- 
dence in  Mary,  but  to  keep  some  for  Christ,  his  Saviour.  I  hope 
he  will  soon  inform  us  that  he  has  taken  away  the  little  (though 
very  big)  woid  am.  from  before  the  name  of  Mary,  and  put  it 
before  the  name  of  Jesus.  Yes,  I  respectfully  advise  him  to  re- 
fuse to  say  any  longer  with  his  church  that  Ai,r.  his  confidence  is 
in  Mary,  but  to  proclaim  that  it  is  am.  in  Je.sus.  Then  he  will 
be  a  true  Christian  and  a  good  Protestant. 

liut  let  us  come  again  to  the  Kreviarium.  In  the  office  of  the 
••Immaculate  Conception"  we  find  the  following  prayer,  which 
Cardinal  Gibbons  is  bound  to  address,  several  times  a  year;  "Ac- 
cipe  quod  offerimus,  redona  qupd  rogamus,  excusa  quodtimemus; 
([uia  tu  es  spes  unica  peccatorum" — Receive  what  we  oflfer, 
give  what  we  ask,  excuse  what  we  fear;  for  thou  art  the  only 
hope  of  sinners." 

No  doubt  that  some  of  our  readers  here  will  again  say:  "Poor 
Father  Chinicpiy  is  always  exaggerating,  but  he  will  never  per- 
suade us  that  such  a  refined  gentleman,  such  a  learned  Christian 
as  Cardinal  Gibbons  has  ever  said  to  the  Virgin  Mary  that 
she  was  the  only  hope  of  sinners.  No  I  Never  such  a  blasphe- 
my has  fallen  from  the  lips  of  a  Christian  so  universally  known 
and  esteemed  as  the  present  Cardinal  of  Baltimore." 

But  such  is  nevertheless  the  case.  And  I  here  again  solemnly 
challenge  Cardinal  Gibbons  to  deny  it. 

That  Cardinal  Gibbons,  with  all  his  priests  and  people,  are 
bound,  under  pain  of  eternal  damnation,  to  say  to  the  Virgin 
Mary,  many  times  every  year:  "Thou  art  the  only  hope  of 
sinners!" 

It  is  amusing  to  hear  the  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome  speak- 
ing on  that  matter  before  Protestants.  It  is  then  evident  that 
they  see  their  idolatry — and  they  are  ashamed  of  it.  They  then 
tell  us  that  it  is  Jesus  who  is  the  "only"  hope  of  sinners. 

Yes!  when  in  the  presence  of  a  Protestant  public,  I    am  glad 
to  hear  that  Cardinal   Gibbons  protests  against  the   ordinances 
if  his  Church,  which  wants  him  to  say  t»o    Mary,    "Thou   art  the 
OKI, V  hoi)e  of  sinners. " 

I  know  there  are  many  priests  of  Rome   to-day  (and   I   hope 

Cardinal  Ciibbons  is  one  of  them)   who   are   disgusted    with   the 

idolatrous  doctrines  of  their  Church  ;  they  see  with  true  horror  the 

abomination  of  her  doctrines,  but  they  feel  they  are  her  children, 

[and  as  such  they  jnit  their  mantle  over  her  shoulders  to  conceal  her 

Lshame  as  much  as  possible  from  -the   eye  of  the   outside  world. 


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They  know  well  the  errors  of  their  guilty  mother;  but,  as  dutiful 
children,  they  don't  like  to  hear  any  bad  talking  against  her ;  they, 
perhaps  secretly,  hope  she  will  reform,  give  up  her  initjuities,  and 
become  a  truly  honest  mother  again.  Though  depraved  in  many 
things,  she  is  such  a  good  mother  to  her  children,  i)articularly 
when  they  are  bishops  or  priests  I  She  feeds,  clothes  and  lodges 
them  so  well!  She  is  so  rich  I  Those  with  whom  she  prostitutes 
herself  are  so  powerful,  so  numerous,  so  great,  so  noble!  There 
are  such  splendors  inside  the  walls  of  her  house  !  Does  she  not 
extend  her  powci  all  over  the  world?  Does  she  not  see  several 
of  the  mightiest  nations  at  her  feet?  Has  she  not  a  matchless 
unity?  Does  she  not  march  to  the  con<iuest  of  the  world  with 
an  irresistible  power? 

Hut,  though  I  congratulate  Cardinal  (libbons,  by  anticipa- 
tion, for  the  declaration  I  expect  from  him  that  he  protests  against 
the  idea  that  "Mary  is  the  on'i.v  hope  for  sinners.''  I  cannot  con- 
gratulate him  for  saying  to  Mary,  several  times  a  week,  when 
alone  with  his  jjcople,  "Thou  art  the  oni.v  hope  for  sinners"  Nor 
can  I  congratulate  him  when,  to  throw  dust  in  the  eyes  of  the  Pro- 
testants, he  cites  the  text  to  the  Council  of  Trent,  "The  Catholic 
Church  teaches  it  is  good  and  profitable  prayerfully  to  invoke 
saints  reigning  in  heaven  with  Christ,  in  order  to  obtain  favors 
from  Clod.'' 

For,  to  say  that  it  is  "good"  to  invoke  Mary  is  not  denying 
that  it  is  "necessary"  to  invoke  her.  We  can  say  "It  is  good  to 
invoke  the  name  of  Jesus,"  without  contradicting  those  who  say 
"It  is  necessary  to  invoke  the  name  of  Jesus."  So,  when  the 
Church  of  Rome  says,  "It  is  good  to  invoke  Mary  and  the  other 
saints,"  she  does  not  deny  that  it  is  "necessary  to  invoke  them." 
When  a  thing  is  necessary  to  salvation  it  is  surely  "good."  The 
word  "good"  is  left  on  the  same  side  of  the  truth  with  the  word 
"necessary,"  by  the  Church  of  Rome,  when  speaking  of  Jesus 
as  when  speaking  of  Mary.  It  is  in  the  same  line  of  errors 
when  applied  to  Mary  and  the  saints  alone.  In  the  apostate 
Church  of  Rome,  in  spite  of  all  her  bold  denials,  the  word  "neces- 
sary" is  contained  in  the  word  "good,"  as  the  tree  is  contained 
in  the  seed. 

In  the  days  of  the  Council  of  Trent,  the  Church  of  Rome, 
through  many  of  her  most  approved  books,  and  through  the  teach- 
ings of  the  so-called  saints,  preached  to  her  blind  and  ignorant 
slaves,  as  she  does  to-day,  that  Mary  was  "the  only  hope  for 
sinners,"  the  "oni.v  foundation  of  their  hopes,"  and,  on  that  ac- 
count, it  wau  then,  as  it  is  now,  considered  "necessary"  in  the 
minds  of  multitudes  to  invoke  her.  But,  as  an  abandoned  woman 
will  sometimes  blush  for  her  own  iniquities,  put  on  airs  of  virtue, 
and  speak  words  which  the  most  virtuous  woman  would  repeat,  30 
the  Church  of  Rome,  at  the  Council  of  Trent,  was  frightened  at 
her  own  impieties  and  idolatries.  She  did  not  dare  to  proclaim,  as 
absolutely  necessary,  the  worship  of  Mary  as  a  dogma.     The  eyes 


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lof  an  indignant  Christian  world  were  upon  her :  she  then  chose 
[a  word  which  could  be  used  as  a  kind  of  veil,  to  conceal  as  much  as 
[possible  hci  iross  idolatry;  though  there  was  enough  in  it  to  help 
Ito  cnntinuf       r  imi)lacable  war  against  (lod  and  His  Christ. 

True  to  her  diabolical  mission,  which  is  to  be  at  the  head  of  the 
[enemies  of  Christ,  and  to  ofter  another  Saviour  to  sinners,  she  con- 
tented herself  with  saying, ''It  is  good  and  profitable  to  go  to  Mary, 
Ito  invoke  her  name  to  obtain   favors  from  God  through  His  son, 
[esus  Christ."     In  that  decree  she  calls  Christ   "the   only   Re- 
leemer  and   Saviour  of  the   world."       But  this   wa-;  mere   dust 
thrown  into  the  eyes  of  the  world,  for  she  knew  very  well  that  her 
ilaves  firmly  believe  that  "Mary  was  the  only  hcpe — the  only 
refuge  of  sinners." 

When  the  learned  Cardinal  Gibbons  reads  this  letter  he  will 
)e  forced,  in  spite  of  himself,  to  confess  that  his  Church  says, 
>'Mary  is  the  only  hope  for  sinners,"  and  very  often  he  himself 
U  obliged  to  say,  "Mary  is  the  only  hope  for  sinners."  But  to 
lave  appearances,  and  in  order  not  to  be  forced  to  publicly  ac- 
Lnowledge  that  his  Church  is  idolatrous,  and  that  he  is  himself  an 
Idolater,  he  will  tell  you  that  the  word  "only"  does  not  mean 
jt'only."  He  will  bravely  tell  you  that  when  he  says,  "Mary  is 
le  'only'  hope  of  sinners,  this  does  not  iViean  at  all  that  "Mary 
\s  the  only  hope  of  sinners. " 

And  if  you  ask  him,  What  then,  is  the  meaning  of  the  word 
'only?"  he  will  tell  you  that  the  infamous  Chiniquy  is  an  apos- 
tate, who,  for  good  reasons,  has  been  a  hundred  times  interdicted. 
I^uspended,  excommunicated:  which  will  be  a  clear  argument  to 
)rove  that  the  Church  of  Rome  does  not  insult  Jesus  Christ,  and 
lat  she  is  not  only  idolatrous  when  she  says  to  Mary,  "Thou  art 
ie  only  hope  for  sinners." 

We  have  a  French  proverb  which  says,  "Le  menteur  n'a  pas  de- 

lemoire  et  se  contredit  souvent" — "The  liar  has  no  memory  and 

»ften  contradicts  himself."     So  the  Church  of  Rome  soon  forgets 

^nd  contradicts  the  few  good  words  she  says  about  Jesus  Christ. 

True  to  her  tendency  to  idolatry,  after  having  said  that  Jesus  was 

le  only  Saviour  of  the  world,  she  employed  all  the  eloquence  of 

^er  orators,  all  the  science  of  her  theologians  to  persuade  sinners 

address  themselves  to  Mary,  by  assuring  them  that  "she  is  the 

|oor  of  heaven,  and  the  only  hope  of  sinners. 

The  learned  Cardinal  will  not  be  worse  than  his  Church  if  he 
ills  you  that  the  word  only,  used  in  connection  with  the  name 
^f  Mary,  as  the  only  hope  of  sinners,  does  not  mean  only. 

When  speaking  to  the  Protestants,  and  trying  to  deceive  them 

ly  her  enchantments,  that  Church  says,  with  great  solemnity  and 

pmphasis,  "Jesus  is  the  only  hope — the  only  Saviour  of  sinners." 

lut  laughs  at  these  expressions  when  speaking  to  her  obedient 

riests  and  blind  slaves.     She  then  says,  "It  is  Mary,  and  Mary 

LONE,  who  destroys  all  the  heresies  of  the  world !  It  is  Mary,  and 

[ary  alone,  who  is  the  hope   of  sinners!   It  is  to  Mary,    and 


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tludugh  Mary  ai.onk,  that  tlie  pour  riinner  must  look  to  besiived!' 
•Maria  iinica  spes  pcccatorum  !" 

'Ihc  more  one  studies  and  knows  Rome  as  she  is,  the  more  he  is 
slru(  k  by  the  duplicity  with  which  she  speaks  and  the  audacity 
with  which  she  denies  what  she  has  just  said  and  done;  the  more 
he  is  saddened  at  the  strange  mixture  of  gold  and  dust  whicn 
comi)ose  her  doctrines;  the  more  he  is  alarmed  at  the  deadly 
])oison  she  puts  into  the  bread  which  she  offers  to  the  world. 

The  ignorant  and  blind  multitudes  of  her  followers  eat  the  bread 
without  suspecting  the  poison  which  is  in  it,  and  they  die  far  from 
God  and  eternal  life,  in  the  arms  of  the  modern  goddess  Mary. 

It  is  that  du|)licity,  that  double-faced  doctrine  which  makes  the 
bold  priest  of  Rome  so  strong,  sometimes,  when  he  is  arguing 
with  an  unsuspecting  Protestant.  The  ambassador  of  Rome 
shows  only  one  side  of  his  doctrine — the  right  side,  the  gospel 
side  ;  and  the  honest  Protestant,  finding  everything  right  in  his  ad- 
versary, expresses  his  regret  at  having  been  unjust  towards  his 
Roman  Catholic  neighbor,  and  is  soon  caught  in  her  trap. 

liut  it  is  that  duplicity,  that  double-faced  doctrine  of  Rome 
which  renders  her  priests  so  timid,  so  weak,  so  ridiculously  ignor- 
ant when  arguing  with  men  like  1-uther,  Calvir>;  Knox,  Gavazzi, 
or  even  the  poor,  a  hundred  times  excommunicated,  Chiniquy. 
For  we  know  all  the  tricks  of  Rome;  we  have  drank  her  poison- 
ous waters;  we  have  plunged  into  the  bottomless  sea  of  her  in- 
iquities; we  have  in  our  hands  all  the  proofs  that  Rome  is  the 
great  mother  of  abominations,  the  great  Babylon  who  has  made 
the  kings  and  nations  drunk  with  the  wine  of  her  prostitution ; 
but  we  know  also  that  the  Lord  will  destroy  her  with  he  bright- 
ness of  His  coming. 

Let  the  Protestants  of  Baltimore  and  the  whole  of  the  United 
States  read  the  following  extracts,  which  I  copy,  word  by  word, 
from  one  of  the  most  approved  books  of  the  Church  of  Rome, 
and  they  will  understand  what  brazen  iaces  Cardinal  Gibbons 
and  his  priests  have,  when  they  deny  that  their  Church  is  idola- 
trous in  her  worship  of  Mary  : 

"The  High  Chancellor  of  Paris,  John  Gerson,  meditating  on 
the  words  of  David— 'These  two  things  have  I  heard,  that  power 
belongeth  to  God,  and  mercy  to  thee,  O  Lord,'  (Psl.  Ixi.  12) — 
says,  that  the  kingdom  of  God,  consisting  of  justice  and  mercy, 
the  Lord  has  divided  it;  He  has  reserved  the  kingdom  of  justice 
for  Himself,  and  He  has  granted  the  kingdom  of  mercy  to  Mary, 
ordaining  that  all  the  mercies  which  are  dispensed  to  man  should 
pass  through  the  hands  of  Mary,  and  should  be  bestowed  accord- 
ing to  her  good  pleasure.  (Psl.  iii.  Tr.  4th,  S.  Magn.)  St. 
Thomas  confirms  this  in  his  preface  to  the  Canonical  Epistle, 
saying  that  the  Holy  Virgin,  when  she  conceived  the  Divine 
Word  in  her  womb,  and  brought  Him  forth,  obtained  the  half  of 
ihe  Kingdom  of  God  by  becoming  (^uecn  of  Mercy,  Jesus  Christ 
remaining  King  of  Justice. 


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o  be  saved!' 


meditating  on 


'•'1  lie  Ettrnal  l''ather  constituted  Jesus  Christ  King  of  Justice, 
md  iheieioic  made  Him  the  Iniversal  Judge  of  the  world  ;  hence 
[the  prophet  sang.  'Give  to  the  King  Ihy  Jiidgment,  O  God;  and 
|to  the  King's  Son  Thy  justice,  (Pis.  Ixxi.  2.)  Here  a  learned 
[interpreter  takes  up  the  subject,  and  says:  'O  Lord,  thou  hast 
l^iven  Thy  Son  'I'hy  justice,  because  Thou  hast  given  to  the 
iMuther  of  the  King  Thy  mercy.'  And  St.  Bonaventure  happily* 
[varies  the  passage  above  cpioted  by  saying,  'Give  to  the  King  Thy 
[judgment.  C)  God ;  and  to  His  Mother  Thy  mercy.'  Ernest, 
'Archbishop  of  Prague,  also  says,  -That  the  Eternal  Father  has 
[given  to  the  Son  the  office  of  judging  and  punishing,  and  to  the 
[mother  the  office  of  compassionating  and  relieving  the  wretched." 
(Glories  of  Mary,  by  St.  Eiguori,  pages  27-29.) 

If  these  blasphemous  words  are  not  sufficieiit  to  prove  that 
■  Cardinal  G'bbons  and  his  priests  give  an  idolatrous  worship  to 
Mary,  let  the  Protestants  of  the  United  States  read  the  following 
page,  from  the  same  book,  which  the  three  last  Popes  have  ap- 
proved. They  will  see  with  their  own  eyes,  and  hear  with 
their  own  ears,  not  from  the  lips  of  Chinicjuy,  but  from  the 
I  very  lips  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  that  the  Virgin  Mary  is  wor- 
shipped as  being  the  intercessor  between  the  sinner  and  God  the 
Father.  One  of  the  most  impudent  falsehoods  with  which  the 
priests  of  Rome  blind  their  poor  dupes,  and  even  the  Protestants 
who  are  not  on  their  guard  against  the  enchantments  of  the 
great  mother  sorceress  of  the  Vatican,  is  that  Mary  is  the  only 
intercessor  between  the  sinner  and  Christ.  There  they  will  see 
I  how  it  is  to  God  the  Father  directly  she  carries  her  petitions, 
and  how  she  is  considered  by  her  devotees,  and  considers  herself, 
the  only  m-'Jiator  between  the  sinner  and  God  the  Father: 

"We  read  in  the  second  book  of  Kings  that  the  wise  woman  of 
Tekoa  said  to  David:  "My  Lord,  I  had  two  sons,  and  for  my 
misfortune  one  has  killed  the  other,  so  that  I  have  already  lost  a 
child;  justice  would  not  take  from  me  my  other  and  only  son; 
I  have  mercy  upon  me,  a  poor  mother,  and  not  let  me  be  deprived 
of  both  my  children.'  Then  David  had  compassion  on  this 
i  mother,  liberated  the  criminal,  and  returned  him  to  her. 

"It  appears  that  Mary  offers  the  same  petition  when  God  is 
angry  with  a  sinner  who  has  recourse  to  her.  'O  my  God!'  she 
says  to  Him,  'I  had  two  sons,  Jesus  and  man;  man  has  killed  my 
Jesus.on  the  cross:  Thy  justice  would  now  condemn  man:  my 
Lord,  my  Jesus  is  dead;  have  mercy  upon  me,  and  if  I  have  lost 
:one,  do  not  condemn  me  to  lose  the  other  also.'  Ah,  God  assur- 
edly does  not  condemn  the  sinners  who  have  recourse  to  Mary, 
and  for  whom  she  prays,  sii^ce  God  has  given  the  sinners  to 
Mary  for  her  children."     (Gloriea  0/  Mary,  by  St.  Liguori,  pages 

73-74) 

Here  is  the  true  doctrine  of  Rome  about  Mary,  given  not  by 
me.  nor  any  enemy  of  the  Church  of  Rome,  but  given  by  one  of 
the  greatest  saints  and  theologians  of  that  Church.     In  this  bias- 


ttiiS 


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phemous  i)rayer,  put  on  the  lips  of  their  modern  goddess,  the 
resurrection  of  Christ  is  forgotten  and  denied!  He  is  dead.  He 
can  not  be  any  more  the  intercessor  between  His  F'ather  and  the 
guilty  children  of  Adam !  but,  happily,  they  don't  want  Him  to 
pray  and  intercede  for  them.  They  have  Mary,  who  says  to  God 
the  Father,  "Man  has  killed  my  son  Jesus.  Do  not  deprive  me. 
then,  of  my  only  surviving  son  man!" 
*  And  with  such  a  book  in  his  hands — such  doctrine  in  his  mind 
— such  blasphemies  on  his  lijjs,  Cardinal  (iibbons  bravely  tells 
us,  through  his  priest  Lynch,  that  the  relative  worship  of  Mary 
is  not  idolatry! 

At  page  118  of  the  same  book  we  read:  "Saint  Intneus  says 
that  the  Divine  word,  before  incarnating  himself  in  the  womb  ot 
Mary,  sent  the  archangel  to  obtain  her  consent,  because  he  would 
have  the  world  indebted  to  Mary  for  the  mystery  of  incarnation !" 
Has  ever  hell  let  more  blasphemous  words  go  from  its  dark 
recess  than  this?  In  the  Church  of  Rome  it  is  not  the  infinite 
compassion  and  love'of  God  that  we  are  indebted  to  for  the  in- 
carnation of  Christ — it  is  to  Mary! 

On  page  119  of  the  same  book  we  read  :  "Also  Idiot  remarks 
that  every  grace,  every  blessing  that  men  have  received  or  will 
receive  from  God,  to  the  end  of  the  world,  has  come  to  them  and 
will  come  to  them  through  the  intercession  and  by  the  means  of 
Mary."  (Glories  of  Mary,  page  119) 

St.  Germanus,  recognizing  Mary  to  be  the  source  of  every 
blessing,  and  the  deliverance  from  every  evil,  thus  invokes  her: 
"O  my  Lady,  thou  alone  art  my  help  given  me  by  God;  thou 
art  the  guide  of  my  pilgrimage,  the  support  of  my  weakness,  my- 
riches  in  poverty,  my  deliverance  from  bondage,  the  hope  of  my 
salvation;  graciously  listen,  I  pray  thee,  to  my  supplications,  take 
compassion  on  my  sighs,  thou  my  Queen,  my  refuge,  my  life,  my 
help,  my  hope,  my  strength."  (Glories  of  Mary,  page  120.) 

But  in  order  to  show  in  what  manner  Christ  is  exalted  above 
Mary  in  the  Church  of  Rome,  let  the  Protestants,  whom  Car- 
dinal Gibbons  wanted  to  blind  on  the  8th  of  December  last, 
read  the  following  story,  published  with  the  infallible  authorities 
of  the  Popes : 

"In  the  Franciscan  chronicle  it  is  related  of  Brother  Leo,  that 
he  once  saw  a  red  ladder,  upon  which  Jesus  Christ  was  standing, 
and  a  white  one  upon  which  stood  His  holy  Mother.  He  saw 
many  persons  attempting  to  ascend  the  red  ladder;  they  ascended 
a  few  steps  and  then  fell.  Then  they  were  exhorted  to  ascend 
the  white  ladder,  and  on  that  he  saw  them  succeed,  for  the  blessed 
Virgin  offered  them  her  hand,  and  they  arrived  in  that  manner 
safe  in  Paradise.  St.  Denys,  the  Carthusian,  asks :  "Who  will 
ever  be  saved?  Who  will  ever  reign  in  heaven?  They  are  saved 
and  will  certainly  reign  for  whom  this  Queen  of  Mercy  offers  her 
prayers."  (Glories  of  Mary,  page  279.) 

I  may  .here  be  asked  by  many,  "How  is  it  possible  that  a  man 


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)t"  the  ability  and  learning  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  does  not  see 
that  his  church  is  idolatrous?  How  can  he  come  so  boldly  before 
fhc  world  and  deny  that  idolatry,  when  it  is  so  evident?" 

There  is  only  one  way  of  answering  that  ciuestion ;  it  is  to 
iread  the  second  chapter  of  the  2nd  Thessalonians: 

'That  mystery  of  ini^iuity  doth  already  work. 

•And  then  shall  that  wicked  be  revealed,  whom  the  Lord 
^hail  consume  with  the  spirit  of  His  mouth,  and  shall  destroy 
^vith  the  brightness  of  His  coming. 

■'Even    Him,   whose    coming  is   after   the   working   of  Satan, 
nth  all  power  and  signs  and  lying  wonders. 

•'And  with  all  the  deceivableness  of  unrighteousness  in  them 
Ithat  perish ;  because  they  received  not  the  love  of  the  truth,  that 
(hey  might  be  saved. 

"And  for  this  cause  God  shall  send  them  strong  delusions, 
jthat  they  should  believe  a  lie. 

"That  they  all  might  be  damned  who  believe  not  the  truth, 
nit  had  p-lcasure  in  unrighteousness." 

1  will  not  accuse  Cardinal  Gibbons,  or  any  of  his  priests,  of 
lishonesty.     My  firm  belief  is  that  many,  if  not  all,  are  honest  in 
their  awful  errors.     Yes,  they  are  honest  as  many  priests  of  the 
White  Elephant  in  Siam,  or  the  priests  of  the  Sun  in  Persia,  and 
jthe  priests  of  Mahomet  in  Constantinople  are  honest.  The  priests 
ind  bishops  of  Rome  are  as  honest  at  the  feet  of  the  wafer-gods 
md  their  goddess  Mary  as  the  priests  of  Baal  were  at  the  feet  of 
Iheir  idols.     Such  honesty  at  the  feet  of  mute  and  contemptible 
Idols  is  one  of  the  saddest  mysteries  of  our  poor,  corrupt  and  fal- 
len human  nature.     We  must  not  insult  or  despise  these  men; 
ire  must  pity  them,  and  pray  for  them. 

In  order  to  enlist  more  surely  the  pity  and  compassion  of  the 
iisciplcs  of  the  Gospel  in  favor  of  Cardinal  Gibbons  and  his 
j>oor  deluded  and  blind  slaves,  I  will  end  this  short  treatise  by 
Copying  two  facts  given  by  St.  Liguori  in  that  most  approved 
^nd  circulated  book  of  Rome,  "The  Glories  of  Mary."  These 
|wo  facts  will  explain  why  the  Roman  Catholics  are  fallen,  every- 
irhere,  into  such  a  bottomless  abyss  of  immorality  and  degradation 
Ihat  they  seem  unable  to  be  raised  again  to  the  level  of  the  Chris- 
tian atmosphere  of  honesty.  In  reading  these  histories,  which 
Ihe  bishops  and  priests  of  Rome  present  to  the  people  as  most 
pdifying  ones,  every  one  will  see  how  the  modern  idolatry  of 
lome,  as  its  old  idolatry,  has  brought  her  into  the  most  deplor- 
kble  state  of  moral  degradation  and  intellectual  depravity. 


ble  that  a  man 


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1 


I  IKsr  SIOKV. 

"Our  advocate  (the  Virgin  ^^ary)  has  shown  how  great  is  her 
kinchiess  towards  sinners  by  her  mercy  to  Beatrix,  a  nun  in  the 
monastery  of  Fontebraldo,  as  related  by  Cesarius  and  Father 
Rho.  This  iinhaiipy  nun,  having  contracted  a  passion  for  a  certain 
youth,  agreed  to  Hee  with  him  from  the  convent;  and,  in  fact,  she 
went  one  day  before  a  statue  of  the  blessed  Virgin,  there  deposi- 
ted the  keys  of  the  monastery — for  she  was  portress — and  boldly 
departed.  Arrived  in  another  country,  she  led  the  miserable  life 
of  a  prostitute  for  fifteen  years.  It  happened  that  she  met,  one 
day,  the  agent  of  the  monastery  in  the  city  where  she  was  living, 
and  asked  of  him,  thinking  he  would  not  recognize  her  again,  if 
he  knew  Sister  Beatrice?  'I  know  her  well,'  he  said,  'she  is  a 
holy  nun,  and  at  present  is  Mistress  of  Novices.' 

"At  this  intelligence  she  was  confounded  and  amazed,  not 
knowing  how  to  understand  it.  In  order  to  ascertain  the  truth, 
she  put  on  another  dress  and  went  to  the  monastery.  She  asked 
for  Sister  Beatrice,  and,  behold!  the  most  holy  Virgin  appeared 
before  her  in  the  form  of  that  same  image  to  which,  at  parting, 
she  had  committed  her  keys  and  her  dress.  And  the  divine 
Mother  spoke  thus:  'Beatrice,  be  it  known  to  thee,  that,  in  order 
to  prevent  thy  disgrace,  I  assumed  thy  form,  and  have  filled  thy 
office  for  the  fifteen  years  that  thou  hast  lived  far  from  the  mon 
astery  and  from  Ciod.  My  child  return  and  do  penance  :  for  my 
Son  is  still  waiting  for  thee :  and  strive  by  thy  holy  life  to  pre- 
serve the  good  name  I  have  gained  thee.' 

"She  spoke  thus  and  disappeared.  Beatrice  re-entered  the  nun 
nery;  and,  gratified  for  the  mercy   of  Mary,    led  the    life  of   a 
saint.      At  her  death  she  made  known  the  foregoing  incident,  to 
the  glory  of  this  great  Queen."  (Glories  of  Mary,  page  224.) 

SECOND    STORY. 

"A  servant  of  Mary  went,  one  day,  to  visit  a  church  of  our 
Blessed  Lady,  without  the  knowledge  of  her  husband,  and  she 
was  prevented,  by  a  severe  storm,  from  returning  that  night  to  her 
own  house.  She  felt  a  great  fear  lest  her  husband  should  be  very 
angry  with  her;  but  she  recommended  herself  to  Mary,  and  when 
she  returned  home,  her  husband  was  very  kind  and  gracious  to 
her.  Upon  questioning  him,  she  found  that  the  evening  before, 
the  divine  Mother  had  taken  her  form  and  attended  to  all  the 
little  affairs  of  the  household.  She  then  related  the  occurrence  to 
her  husband,  and  they  both,  afterwards,  practiced  great  devotioi^ 
to  the  blessed  Virgin."  (dlories  of  Mary,  page  701.) 

Thus  it  is  that  after  having  raised  Mary  above  Christ,  by  cal- 
ling her  the  only  hope  of  sinners,  the  only  foundation  of  our  sal- 
vation, the  only  destroyer  of  heresy,  the  gate  of  heaven,  etc.,  etc.. 


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ihe  Church  of   Rome   degrades   and   dishonors  her  liy   hringing 
ler  down  to  a  level  with  women  we  cannot  name. 

Thus  it  is  that,  everywhere,  the    idolatrous   Churrli    of   Rome 
las  killed  and   destroyed  the    idea  of   what  is    pure  and    right. 
Ehonest  and  holy  among  men. 

C.  CHINIQUY. 


[why  we  must  put  our  trust  in  JESUS  ALONE 
AND  NOT  INVOKE  MARY. 


I'HE  CRUCIFIED  JESUS  AND    THE  PENITENT 

THIEF. 

"And  when  one  of  the  malefactors  which  were  hu  iged  railed 

?on  him,  saying,  Tf  thou  he  Christ,  save  thyself  and  us.'     But  the 

i other,  answering,  rebuked  him,  saying,  'Dost  thou  not  fear  (iod, 

seeing  thou  art  in  the  same   condemnation?       And    we,    indeed 

I  justly,  for  we  receive  the  due  reward  of  our  deeds,  but  this  man 

hntli  done   nothing  amiss.'      And    he    said    unto  Jesus,    'Lord, 

remember    me     when    thou    comest  into    thy  kingdom.'      And 

Jesus  said  unto  him,  'Verily  I  say  unto   you,  to-day,  shalt  thou 

'be  with  me  in  Paradise  I'     (Luke  23:  39-43.) 

This  sublime  dialogue  between  Jesus  dying  on  the  cross  and 
the  repenting  sinner,  is  tne  most  touching  summary  of  the  de- 
sign of  the  mission  of  Jesus  Christ  upon  earth,  as  it  is  the  measure 
of  the  unlimited  confidence  that  the  penitent  sinner  ought  to 
place  in  the  mercy  of  the  Saviour.  A  few  reflections  upon 
what  passed  and  was  said  upon  these  two  crosses,  are  sufficient 
to  enable  us  to  comprehend  the  injury  that  the  Church  of  Rome 
does  to  the  Holy  Virgin  and  to  the  gospel,  in  her  eftorts  to  turn 
the  thoughts  and  the  hearts  of  sinners  towards  Mary,  as  the 
most  solid  foundation  of  their  salvation. 

During  this  dialogue  between  the  Saviour  and  the  penitent 
thief,  St.  John  tells  us  that  Mary  was  at  Lhe  foot  of  the  cross: 
I'  then,  we  can  believe  that  she  knew  what  was  passing  there. 
And  how  she  must  have  felt  her  heart  thrill  with  joy,  in  si)ite 
of  her  bitter  grief,  when  she  heard  with  loving  kindness  Jesus 
saying  to  the  companion  of  his  sufferings,  "To-day  shalt  thou  be 
'with  me  in  Paradise." 

No  doubt    that  the   faith  and   conversion  of  the  thief  were 
infinitely  pleasing  to  the  holy  mother   of  Jesus,    and  that   they 
I  brought,  for  a  moment,  a  happy  diversion  from  her  sorrows. 

The  spectacle  which  is  presented  to  us  upon  Calvary  is  one  of 
such  sublimity  and  grandeur  that  man  will  never  be  able  wor- 
thily to  describe  it.  Whilst  our  thoughts  go  toward  Jesus  and 
the  penitent  thief,  and  whilst,  in  the  stillness  of  reflection  and 
meditation,  we  call  to  remembrance  the  words  that  these  two 
sufferers  on  the  cross  interchanged,  we  feei  ourselves  penetrated 


4° 

by  such  a  seutiment  of  love  and  confidence  in  the  Saviour,  that 
we  can  no  longer  speak  of  him  but  with  tears.  We  feel  that  to 
distrust  Jesus,  or  doubt  His  love  and  mercy  for  sinners,  is  one 
of  tlie  greatest  crimes  of  which  man  can  be  guilty. 

Hut  let  us  suppose  that  the  penitent  thief,  instead  of  address- 
ing the  crucified  Jesus,  and  turning  all  the  thoughts  and  affec- 
tions of  his  heart  toward  the  Saviour  of  the  world,  had  turned 
his  thoughts  and  hopes  towards  Mary,  as  the  Roman  Church 
advises  all  sinners,  and  especially  dying  sinners,  to  do — suppose 
the  penitent  thief,  instead  of  saying  to  Jesus,  "Remember  me 
when  thou  comest  into  thy  kingdom,"  had  said  what  all  the 
popes,  bisho|)s  and  i)riests  of  Rome  put  into  the  mouth  of  sin- 
ners, "Lord  Jesus,  I  have  been  so  wicked  that  I  do  not  deserve 
to  speak  to  you,  nor  to  be  heard  by  you.  But,  behold  your 
mother  I  Her  female  heart  must  naturally  be  more  feeling  and 
more  comi)assionate  than  yours;  she,  then,  will  listen  to  me 
better  than  you  will;  she  will  be  more  easily  touched  with  pity 
for  my  unfortunate  lot  than  you.  Do  not  take  it  amiss,  then, 
that  1  should  address  myself  to  her  in  preference  to  yoli,'  in 
order  to  get  help  in  the  miseries  that  oppress  me.  I  dare  not 
speak  to  you  myself,  for  you  are  the  Holy  of  Holies,  and  I  am  a 
miserable  sinner.  But  I  will  speak  to  you  through  your  mother; 
she  will  demand  from  you  grace  and  mercy  for  me.  A  good 
son  refuses  nothing  to  his  mother!  You  cannot,  then,  refuse 
her  what  she  will  ask  of  you  for  me;  for  she  has  an  authority 
over  you  that  you  cannot  disown.  The  favor  which,  then,  you 
would  refuse  to  a  criminal  like  me,  will  be  easily  granted  to 
her,  whom  you  can  not  refuse  anything.  You  are  come  into 
the  world,  I  know,  armed  with  the  inexorable  justice  of  your 
Father  to  punish  the  guilty.  But  whilst  God  the  Father  has  given 
to  you  the  mission  of  justice  and  chastisement.  He  has  given  to 
your  mother  the  mission  of  mercy  and  pardon.  I  know  that  with- 
out Mary  I  am  lost;  for  it  is  she  that  is  the  gate  ot  heaven,  the 
refuge  of  sinners.  My  chosen  advocate  is  your  mother;  I  fear 
nothing,  for  I  know  you  can  refuse  nothing." 

We  ask  all  men  to  whom  God  has  given  a  spark  of  Christian 
intelligence,  would  such  language  in  the  mouth  of  the  thief  have 
been  suitable?  Would  it  have  pleased  and  honored  the  Holy 
Virgin?  In  one  word,  would  it  have  obtained  from  the  Saviour 
this  answer:  "To-day  shalt  thou  be  with  me  in  Paradise?" 

Roman  Catholics  who  read  these  lines,  do  you  not  understand 
that  each  of  these  words,  if  they  had  been  spoken  by  the  thief  on 
the  cross,  would  have  been  blasphemy — an  outrage  on  Jesus 
Christ,  and  an  insult  to  the  Holy  Virgin?  But  see,  now.  with- 
out any  exaggeration,  the  sentiments  with  which  your  Roman 
Church  wishes  to  inspire  you!  You  know  that  these  are  the 
very  words  which  she  makes  you  learn  by  heart,  that  she  makes 
you  read  in  all  your  books,  and  that  she  announces  to  you  by  her 
priests,  in  order  that  you  should  address  them  to  Jesus  Christ! 


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Its,  is  one 


I,et  lis  go  on  and  suppcsc  that,  after  ihis  lai.^iiage  was  addressed 
to  Jesus  upon  the  Cross,  the  thief,  sp(.;akiiig  to  the  Holy  Virgin, 
had  said  to  licr,  "O  Mary,  the  refuge  of  sinners,  you  are  the 
only  foundation  of  my  hope  and  of  my  faith;  you  are  the  gate 
of  heaven,  the  consolation  of  the  afflicted,  he  salvation  of  sinners  I 
It  is  through  you  a/ofte  that  all  the  grace  and  blessings  of  heaven 
descend  upon  the  earth!  It  is  by  you  a/ofie  that  all  errors,  here- 
sies and  sins  are  destroyed  in  the  world  I  Whilst  your  son  Jesus 
has  for  his  mission  to  cause  the  inexorable  justice  of  the  Father  to 
reign  in  the  world,  it  is  your  part  to  execute  mercy.  .  .  All  those 
who  put  their  confidence  in  you,  and  invoke  the  all-powerful  aid 
of  your  prayer;,  will  be  saved !  The  arms  of  your  son  are  always 
raised  to  punish  and  crush  the  sinner;  it  is  yours,  I  know,  to  pre- 
vent his  avenging  arm  from  striking.  I  see  that  your  son  is 
angry  with  me;  I  feel  that  I  have  deserved  his  wrath.  Be  pleased 
then,  O  Mary,  to  appease  him,  and  ask  of  him  grace  for  me,  for  I 
am  so  guilty  that  he  will  not  listen  to  me  if  I  speak  to  him !  I 
put  my  salvation  in  your  hands;  I  make  myself  your  child,  your 
servant,  your  slave.  Regardme  with  compassion,  since  I  deplore 
my  sins.  Cause  him  to  remember  you  are  his  mother,  and  by 
that  title  you  have  full  authority  over  him.  O  Mary,  my  hope 
and  refuge,  I  throw  myself  in  your  arms.     Save  me!" 

Once  more,  we  ask  of  the   brethren  of  the  Roman   Church, 
would  not  each  of  these  words,  in  the  mouth  of  the  thief  on  the 
cross,  have  been  blasphemous  against  Christ?     Would  they  not 
'have  been  an  insult  to  the  Holy  Virgin? 

Would  the  humble  Mary,  at  the  foot  of  Calvary,  have  received 

[with  pleasure  these  insipid  praises?     Would  she  have  felt  herself 

Ihonored  by  these  sacrilegious  prayers  which  the  Roman  Catho- 

|lics  repeat  every  day?     No,  a  thousand  times  no!     Never  would 

[the  Holy  Virgin  at  the  foot  of  Calvary,  whilst  the  blood  of  the 

Igreat  victim  was  falling  dro]i  by  drop  from  the  cross,  have  con- 

jsented  to  have  heard  herself  called  iAe  salvation  of  the  world,  the 

Ehope  of  sinners,  the  gate  of  heaven ;  she  would  have  repelled  with 

ihorror  these  words  of  blasphemy;  she  would  have  replied  to  the 

Ithief:  "Ah!  wretch,  when  so  near  h"m  who  atones  for  the  sins  of 

[the  world,  covered  with  his  blood,  a  witness  of  his  patience,  of  his 

jildness,  and  of  his  love  even  to  his  murderers,  how  can  you  doubt 

lis  pity  for  you?     If  I  am  his  mother  according  to  the  flesh,  he 

is  my  God,  he  is  my  Saviour,  as  well  as  yours,  by  his  grace.    Do 

|you  not  know  that  it  was  to  seek  and  to  save  sinners  that  he  des- 

|cended  from  heaven;  that  it  is  for  sinners  that  his  body  is  broken, 

lis  head  lacerated  by  the  thorns,  his  hands  and  his  feet  pierced  by 

^he  nails,  and  it  is  from  love  for  sinners  that  his  blood  is  flowing 

ind  that  he  will  soon  expire?     He  has  spent  his  life  in    calling 

sinners  to  himself.     To  the  greatest  among  them  he  said:  'Come 

iinto  me  and  you  shall  be  consoled  and  pardoned.'  His  wish  was 

ko  be  with  sinners — he  was  called  the  friend  of  sinners.     Do  not 

pear,  then,  to  speak  to  him,  for  he  is  your  most  sincere  friend. 


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See  the  marks  of  mildness  and  love  which  shine  through  the 
blood  which  covers  his  face.  It  is  he  alone  who  is  the  salvation 
of  the  world,  the  refuge  of  sinners,  the  gate  of  heaven.  It  is  on 
his  name  alone  we  must  call  to  be  saved.  Your  want  of  faith  ii\ 
his  mercy  and  love  for  you  causes  him  more  suffering  than  the 
nails  which  pierce  his  hands  and  feet.  In  order  to  obtain  the 
grace  and  pardon  you  need,  address  yourself  to  him,  and  to  /ttm 
tr/oHc,  for  he  only  is  your  true  friend — your  brother,  full  of  afifec- 
tion  — yoiu-  father,  full  of  love,  and  your  merciful  Saviour. 
Speak  to  him,  then,  yourself,  and  do  hear  from  hi.s  mouth  the 
sentence  of  pardon  which  is  already  written  in  his  heart!  But 
cease  to  insult  him,  and  to  insult  me  thus,  by  thinking  I  can  love 
you  more  than  he  loves  you,  and  that  I  can  be  more  compassion- 
ate towards  you  than  he  is  himself!" 

Let  not  our  dear  brethren,  who  are  still  in  the  bonds  of  Romish 
superstition,  be  deceived  by  the  idea  that  that  which  would  have 
been  unsuitable  and  blasphemous  in  the  mouth  of  the  penitent 
thief  is  altogetncr  suitable  and  Christian  to-day,  when  Jesus  is  in 
heaven.  For  our  Lord,  although  in  heaven,  is  as  near  to  every 
sinner,  to  hear  and  pardon  him,  as  he  was  to  the  thief  on  the  cross ; 
His  ear  is  no  further  Jistant  from  the  mouth  of  the  sinner  who. 
to-day,  asks  mercy  from  Him  than  it  was  from  the  crucified  thief: 
His  heart  is  not  less  kind  and  compassionate  to-day  than  it  was  at 
the  day  of  His  death ;  poor  sinners  are  not  less  dear  to  Him  to-day 
than  then.  .\nd  He  has  no  more  need  now  than  then  to  be  forced 
by  His  mother  to  pardon  the  penitent  sinner. 

The  penitent  thief  had  no  need  of  an  intercessor  to  touch  the 

heart  of  Jesus Although  the  mother  of  the  Saviour  was 

there  present,  he  had  not  even  a  thought  of  addressing  her.  He 
understood  that  Jesus  was  his  friend,  his  Saviour  and  his  God: 
and  he  did  not  deceive  himself.  ....  He  put  in  Jesus,  and  Jesus 
alone,  all  his  hope,  and  he  was  not  disappointed.  He  spoke  bold- 
ly to  Jesus  as  one  speaks  to  a  friend,  to  a  dear  brother,  and  he 
did  well ;  for  it  was  thus,  as  it  is  still  thus,  that  Jesus  wishes  that 
we  should  speak  to  him. 

And  to  assert  that  Jesus  has  more  need,  to-day,  than  he  had 
then  to  be  urged  and  roused  or  appeased  by  his  mother,  in  order 
to  hear  sinners  who  return  to  him,  would  be  a  childish  absurdity, 
if  not  an  awful  blasphemy. 

When  God,  in  His  great  mercy,  opens  the  eyes  of  a  Roman 
Catholic  to  the  errors  of  his  church,  the  first  sentiment  which  he 
experiences  is  one  of  unspeakable  joy  for  the  favor  which  he  has 
received.  But  the  second  thing  which  strikes  his  mind  and  heart 
is  a  feeling  of  astonishment  at  the  facility  and  sort  of  sincerity 
with  which  he  has  received  and  believed,  as  incontestible  truths, 
errors  and  superstitions  the  most  palpable  and  anti-Christian. 

Now,  the  error  which  is  dearest  and  most  deep-rooted  in  the 
heart  of  a  Roman  Catholic  is,  that  the  shortest  and  surest  way  to 
be  heard  by  Jesus  Christ,  and  to  draw  upon  us  a  look   of  His 


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nercy,  is  not  to  speak  to  him  directly  ourselves,  but  to  get  some 

)f  the  saints  in  heaven,  that  we  believe  arc  most  clear  to  His  heart. 

to  speak  to  him  in  our  behalf.      In  order  to  support  this  error,  all 

Ihe  modern  theologians  of  the  vJhnrch   of  Rome   assure  us  that 

(Jesus,  being  the  Holy  of  Holies,  it  is  quite  natural  that  He  should 

listen  with  more  pleasure  to  the  voice  of  one  of  the  elect  in  heaven 

than  to  that  of  a  sinner,  such   as  we  all   arc.     The   Church  of 

[Rome,  then,  assures  us  that  the  saints  in  heaven  whom  I  address 

|will  hear  me  with  more  pleasure,  facility,  readiness,  mercy  and 

love  than  Jesus  Christ  would  do. 

For  if  the  Church  of  Rome,  returning  to  the  evangelical  truth, 
[which  she  has  so  long  forgotten,  should  say  to  a  sinner,  "There 
is  no  saint  in  heaven  who  loves  you  so  much  as  Jesus  Christ; 
there  is  no  ear  so  attentive  as  His  to  the  voice  of  our  repentance; 
Ithere  is  not  in  heaven  a  mind  or  heart  so  easily  or  so  mercifully 
ftouched  with  compassion  for  all  our  miseries  as  the  soul  of  Jesus 
[Christ;  there  is  not  a  person  in  heaven  who  can  have  so  much 
Ipleasiire  in  hearing  himself  invoked  and  in  seeing  himself  ap- 
Iproached  by  the  penitent  sinner  as  Jesus,"  the  people  would  put 
lall  their  confidence  in  Jesus,  and  in  Jesus  alone,  and  would  ad- 
jdress  him  as  the  gospel  directs. 

In  short,  would  it  not  be  the  height   of  folly  in  any  case  to  go 
|to  any  but  Jesus  to  obtain  any  favors. 

If  the  Church  of  Rome,  instead  of  losing  herself  and  wander- 
ling  away  into  foolish  and  vain  traditions,  would  keep  to  the  word 
lof  God,  she  would  say,  with  St.    Paul,  "And   I  count   all   things 
ibut  loss  for  the  excellency  of  the  knowledge  of  Jesus  Christ,  my 
iLord,  for  whom  I  have  suffered  the  loss  of  all   things."     (Phil- 
tlippians,  iii.  8.)     If,  laying  aside  the  deplorable  sophisms  which 
[form  the  basis  of  her  worship  of  the  saints,  the  Church  of  Rome 
Iwould  hold  the  language  of  Evangelical  Truth,  her  people  every- 
Iwhere  would  know  that  in  Jems  and  in  Jesus  alone,  they  have 
fall  the  treasures  of  mercy,  of  love  and  of  the  power  of  God;  their 
■thoughts,  their  hearts  and  their  hopes  would  turn  towards  Jesus, 
|and  Jesus  alone;  they  would  know,  then,  that  the  power,  the 
jercy  and  the  compassion  of  Jesus  are  always  active,  always  effi- 
;acious,  and  above  all,  alwaysat  the  service  of  the  penitent  sinner, 
[er  people  would  know,  at  the  same  time,  that  these  treasures  of 
ihe  mercy  of  the  Saviour,  who  is  both  God  and  man,  are  monopo- 
jjized  by  nobody;  that  they  are  not  the  property  of  any  saints  in 
)articular,  but  that  they  are  the  treasures  of  every  sinner  who  has 
liberty  to  draw  therefrom,  according  to  his  repentance,  love  and 
Faith. 

"Whatsoever  ye  shall  ask  from  my  Father  in  my  name,"  said 
fesus  Christ,  "shall  be  given  you."  After  such  a  declaration 
from  the  very  lips  of  the  Saviour,  how  can  we  believe  that  it  is 
lecessary  for  one  to  address  the  saints  in  order  to  propitiate  him? 
For  why  should  Jesus  Christ,  in  heaven,  be  less  ready  to  listen 
|to  me  and  pity  me  than  St.  Peter,  St.  Paul,  St.  Mary  or  any  other 


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saint  to  whom  i  might  wish  to  address  my.^e'.t"?  Can  the  human 
ity  ot  St.l'ctct.  St.  I'aul  or  St.  Mary  hv  viiorc  perfect  than  the 
humanity  of  Jcsiis  Christ?  Why  should  this  be?  And  where 
shall  we  lind  reason  for  such  a  monstrous  doctrine?  To  assert, 
as  the  Church  of  Rome  does,  that  the  saints,  being  nothing  above 
us  l(y  nature,  and  having  been  sinners  like  us,  know  better  our 
miseries,  and  ought  to  symi)athise  with  us  more  than  Jesus  Christ, 
because  he  is  incapable  of  sin,  is  to  deny  the  humanity  as  well  as 
the  di\inity  of  the  Saviour;  it  is  to  deny  the  gospel  which  teaches 
us  that  Jesus  has  not  only  known  and  understood  our  miseries  in- 
tinitely  better  than  all  the  saints,  but  also  i)aid,  even  to  the  last 
farthing,  the  debt  of  our  sins,  and  washed  tliem  away  in  his  blood. 

How  would  Jesus  have  been  able  to  bear  our  sins  upon  Him- 
self ?  How  could  He  have  charged  himself  with  our  iniquities  and 
paid  all  that  was  due  to  the  justice  of  Cod,  -unthout  knowing  them 
perfectly,  without  comprehending  their  number,  their  nature  and 
their  malignity?  But,  above  all,  how  could  the  Saviour  of  the 
world  have  undertaken  to  pay  the  debt  of  our  iniquities  if  these 
inifpiities  had  not  e.\cited  in  His  mind  a  degree  of  sympathy,  of 
compassion  and  of  love  of  which  all  the  saints  together  are  in- 
capable? 

Once  more :  let  us  forget,  for  a  moment,  that  Jesus  Christ  is 
(iod;  let  us  suppose  that  He  is  only  a  man,  and  let  us  fix  our 
thoughts  on  this  human  person.  We  ask,  can  we  find  in  the 
Sacred  Scripture  a  single  expression  which  would  lead  us  to  think 
that,  as  a  man,  Jesus  is  less  kind,  less  patient  or  less  merciful  to- 
wards us  than  St.  Peter,  St.  Paul  or  St.  Mary?  And  moreover 
in  order  that  I  may  address  myself  to  one  saint  in  preference  to 
another,  I  must  have  reason  to  believe  that  this  saint  will  be  more 
favorable  to  me  than  he  to  whom  I  have  preferred  him.  To  ad- 
dress myself  to  St.  Mary,  for  example,  in  preference  to  Jesus,  and 
to  ask  this  woman,  blessed  among  all  women,  to  speak  for  me  to 
Jesus  Christ,  I  must  believe  that  she  will  hear  and  answer  me 
more  surely  and  more  quickly  than  He.  For,  from  the  moment 
that  I  believe  that  Jesus  will  be  more  favorable  to  me  and  more 
compassionate  to  my  miseries  than  Mary  or  any  other  saint,  I 
would  go  to  Jesus.  Nothing  more  simple  and  more  natural,  amd 
for  this  very  reason,  nothing  more  powerful  than  this  argument. 
Well,  plain  good  sense,  as  well  as  the  gospel,  tells  us  that  if  Jesus 
were  only  a  man  in  heaven,  He  would  be  there,  as  He  was  upon 
earth,  the  most  compassionate,  the  mcst  loving,  the  most  charitable 
and  the  most  influential  of  holy  men.  And  consequently  (al- 
ways supposing  that  He  is  only  a  man)  even  tljen  I  would  ad- 
dress only  Him  in  my  prayers.  It  is  in  this  man  Jesus  that  I 
ought  to  put  my  greatest  confidence,  it  is  from  this  man  Jesus 
that  I  should  aspect  the  i)romptest  aid;  it  is  to  this  man  Jesus 
that  I  ought  to  speak  with  most  faith  and  pleasure. 

And  the  most  igno-ant,   as  well   as   the  most  learned  of  my 
brethren  of  the  Church  of  Rome  will  be  forced  to  confess  that 


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am  acting  wisely,     They  could  not  but  confess  that  those  who 
^ut  their  trust  in  saints,  less  kind,   less  influential,  less  merciful 
Jan  my  saint  protector  and  friend  Jesus,  would,  to  say  the  least 
>f  it,  be  deficient  in  wisdom. 

Hut  would  any  one  dare  to  say  that  the  holy  humanity  of  Jesus 
ias  lost  any  of  its  love,  its  mercy,  its  inri'iencc  or  its  kindness  to- 
wards the  sinner,  by  its  perfect  union  with  His  divinity? 

No  I  It  is  impossible  that  any  Roman  Catholic  would  dare, 
lesignedly,  to  utter  a  word  so  wicked  and  senseless. 

Well,  it  is,  nevertheless,  what  all  Roman  Catholics  unconscious- 
ly do  and   say  each  time  they   shrink   from   speaking  to  Jesus 
'hrist,  under  the  pretext  that  He  will  not  hear  them  because  of 
Iheir  sins,  and  when  they  address  the  saints  whom  they  believe 
\o  be  more  ready  to  hear!     If  it  is  possible  that  //tan  in  heaven 
)ves  us  and  hears  us  with  pleasure,  it  is  still  more  possible  and 
lore  certain  that  the   Go^  man  will  listen   to  us   with  pleasure, 
jlnd  answer  us  in  His  infinite  mercy. 

It  is,  then,  inconceivable  folly  to  leave  the  God  man,  to  shrink 
rem  speaking  to  the  Go</  Man,  and  to  distrust  the  God  Man,  in 
)rder  to  address  a  man  and  to  put  all  our  hope  in  a  mere  man. 

But  this  folly  becomes  an  inexcusable  crime,  an  abomination, 
In  act  of  idolatry,  when  this  God  man  has  descended  from  heaven 
\o  tell  us  himself  that  he  is  oi4r  friend,  our  brother,  oar  Saviour, 
)iir  advocate,  our  a// — our  God,  infinitely  good,  infinitely  merciful* 
ind  infinitely  kind. 


WHY  I  WILL  NEVER  GO  BACK  TO  THE  CHURCH 

OF  ROME. 


To  THE  Rev.  Bishop  Eourget,  of  Montreal. 


"On  my  arrival  from  the  maritime  provinces,  I  learned  that 
^our  priests  and  your  press  organs  have  published  that  I  have 
bied,  during  my  last  illness,  to  make  my  peace  with  your  Church. 

do  not  want  to  tell  you  that  thi.s  is  an  unmitigated  false- 

lOOD ;  YOU  KNOW    IT    BETTER   THAN    ANY    MAN.        'No,     my     Lord, 

"fy  the  mercy  of  God  I  will  never  submit  myself  again  to  the   ig- 
lominious  yoke  of  the  Pope.     And  allow  me  to  give  you  and 
^our  priests  and  your  press  some  of  my  reasons.' 
"(i.)  Your  dogma  of  the  Apostolic  Succession  frgm  Peter  to 

i»ius  IX.,  is  an  imposture.  You  cannot  find  a  single  word  in  the 
loly  gospel  to  show  us  that  Peter  has  passed  a  single  hour  in 

Lome.  You  know  very  well,  also,  that  the  superiority  or  pre- 
eminence you  give  to  Peter  over  the  other  apostles  is  another 
imposture.     Every  time  our  Saviour  was  asked  by  His  twelve 


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ai>()>tli-s  who  would  l-r  ilic  l'ii>t.  llic  I.i;ailti.  llir  l't'|"-'-  He  al- 
ways aii>wt'rcil  tliat  iheit  would  not  lu-  mk  li  I'iol.  l.t-adcr  or 
J'opc  in  Hi^  Cliiinli.  More  ihan  thai,  lie-  i.osilivcl)  aii>wfrf(l 
the  mother  of /el.cdcc'h  chiidrcii  that  lie  Iiail  not  nctivrd  from 
J-Iis  l''alhcr  the  power  to  eslahlish  one  of  Hi>  a|'o>tle>  over  the 
others.  'To  >il  on  in\  lij^lit  hand  or  on  in)  lelt  in  not  mine  to 
give.'  (Matt.  \.\.  23.)  W  v  have  an  irrefutable  and  infallible 
proof  that  oiM-  Saviour  never  put  I'eteral  the  head  of  the  apostles 
as  the  I'irst.  the  Leader,  or  the  I'ope.  as  you  call  your  Supreme 
I'ontitf,  in  the  dispute  which  occurred  aimtng  the  apostles  a  little 
before  His  deatii.  'And  there  was  also  a  strife  among  them 
which  of  them  should  br  counted  greatest.'  (Luke  .xxii.  24.) 
Such  a  dispute  would  ne\er  have  o( curred  if  Jesus  (Christ  had 
established  Peter  the  greatest  or  the  l''irst  of  them.  They  would 
surely  have  known  it,  and  Jesus  Christ  would  have  answered, 
'Have  you  so  soon  forgotten  that  Leter  is  the  greatest  among 
you;  that  he  is  the  first  among  you.  from  the  day  in  which  I  ap- 
pointed him  the  fundamental  stone  of  my  church?' 

"Hut,  far  from  answering  tiuis,  the  Son  of  God  rebukes  His 
apostles,  and  tells  them  positively,  'The  Kings  of  the  Gentiles 
exercise  lordship  over  them.  .  .  .  15ut  it  shall  not  be  so 
among  you.'  (Luke  xxii.  23-25.)  Not  only  that  modernly  forged 
primacy  of  Peter  has  never  been  acknowledged  by  any  of  the 
apostles,  but  it  has  been  openly  and  positively  denied  by  St.  Paul. 
'For  he  that  wrought  effectually  in  Peter  to  the  apostleship  of 
the  circumcision,  <he  same  was  mighty  in  me  towards  the  Gen- 
tiles.' (Galatians  ii.  8.)  And  when  James,  Cephas  and  John, 
who  seemed  to  be  the  pillars,  perceived  the  grace  that  was  given 
unto  me,  they  gave  to  me  and  Barnabas  tho  right-hand  of  fellow- 
ship, that  we  should  go  unto  the  heathen,  and  they  unto  the  cir- 
cumcision.' Here  Peter  is  named  only  after  James,  a  thing  which 
never  could  have  been  done  by  St.  I'aul,  if  he  had  known  any- 
thing of  the  marvellous  superiority  and  primacy   of  Peter  over 

te  rest  of  the  apostles.  But  please  read  the  following  words  of 
Paul :  "But  when  Peter  was  come  to  Antioch,  I  withstood  him 
to  the  face,  because  he  was  to  blame.'  (Galatiansii.  11.)  Isitnot 
evident  that  Paul  had  not  the  least  idea  of  any  kind  of  superiority 
of  l^eter  over  him  when  he  withstood  him  to  the  face;  and  still 
more  when  he  wrote  these  lines?  Is  it  not  clear  that  the  Holy 
Ghost  has  inspired  Paid  to  give  us  the  history  of  his  so  stern 
withstandirg  to  the  face  of  Peter  that  we  might  not  be  seduced  by 
the  grand  imposture  of  the  su))remacy  of  Peter,  which  is  the 
corner  stone  of  your  apostate  Church? 

"(2.)  I  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church  is  idolatrous.  You  worship  Ciod?  Yes  I  but  the  God 
whom  you  worship  is  made  with  a  wafer — it  is  a  wafer  god  that 
is  on  your  altar!  Every  hour  of  your  i)riestly  life  you  are  guilty 
of  the  crime  which  Aaron  committed  when  he  caused  the  Israel 
ites  to  worship  a  golden  calf     The  only  difference  between  you 


and  Aaron  is  tliat  his  god  was  niado  of  gold,  ,uul  youis  i.-.  niadi' 
of  some  (lough  bakt-d  by  your  n-ins  or  your  servant  girls,  between 
two  weiIi)oHshed  and  healed  irons.       Vou  have  a  Christ  on  your 
altars!      Yes! — and  you  are  very  devoted  and  truly  piou^  towards 
that  Christ — or  rather  those  Christs;  you  praise  their  powers  and 
their  mercies;  ycni  sing  beautifid    songs  in    their  honor;  but  the 
Christs  whom  you  worhhip  are   sjxjken   of  by  our  Saviour  in  the 
twenty-fourth  of  Matthew.     'There  will  be  false  Christs,  .  .  .  and 
they  shall  show  great  signs   and  wonders;    insonuu  h  that    if  it 
were  possible  they  shall  dereive   the  very  elect.  .   .   .   Wherefore 
if  they  shall  say  unto  you,   'Behold   He   (Chri^^t)   is  in   the  sec  ret 
chambers,  believe  it  not.'     Now.  how  do  you  not  see  that  terrible 
proi)hesy  is  accomplished  by  you  every  time  you  prostrate  your- 
selves before  those  Christs  made  of  little   rakes   and   put   in  the 
secret  chambers  of  your  church.      Do  you  not  believe  in   those 
Christs  of  the  secret  chambers,  when   the  Son    of  Cod  tells  you. 
'Helieve  it  not?'     Do  you  not  go  there  to  adore  your  wafer-god 
when  the  true  Christ  says,  'Go  not  there?'     In  vain  you   tell  us 
that  Christ  gave  you  the  power   to  make  your  god  with  the  en- 
graven wafer.     We  answer  you   that  Christ   Himself  had  not  the 
power  to  make  God  and  make   Himself  with  an  engraved  wafer; 
for  His  Father  had  forbidden  such  an  absurd  and  idolatrous  act, 
when  on  Mount  Sinai,  in  the  midst  of  thunders   and  lightnings. 
He  said,  'Thou  shalt  not  make  unto  thee  any  graven  image,  or 
any  likeness  of  anything  that  is  in  the  heaven  above,  or  that  is  in 
the  earth  beneath,  or  that  is  in   the  water  under  the  earth — thou 
shalt  not  bow  down  thyself  to  them,  for  I  the  I-ord  thy  God  am 
a  jealous  God,  visiting  the  iniquity  of  the  fathers  upon  the  children 
unto    the   third  and  fourth  generation  of  them   that  hate  me.' 
Now,  you  well  know  that  Christ  came  to  accomplish  and  not  to 
break  His  Father's  commandments.     He  could  not  give  you  the 
permission  or  the  power  to  break  them  by  ordering  you,  as  you 
pretend  He  did,  to  make  an  engraven  wafer,  change  it  into  your 
god,  and  bow  yourself  down  before  it;  for  this  is  idolatry! — rank 
shameful  idolatry!   I  am  ready  to  meet  you  or  any  of  your  priests 
in  any  public  or  private  discussion  to  show  you,  with  the  help  of 
God,  that  when  Christ  told  you  to  eat   His  body  and  drink  His 
blood,  He  was  speaking  with  the  same  figure  as  when  He  said 
He  would  eat  the  Passover.     Though  Christ  said,  I  will  eat  the 
Passover,'  He  was  not  able  to  eat  the  Passover,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  the  passage  of  the  exterminating  angel  over  Egypt 
could  not  be  eaten.  .  .  But  the  lamb  which  was  eaten  in  remem- 
brance of  the  Passover  would  be  eaten,  and  that  lamb  was  called 
the  'Passover.'     By  the  same  figure  of  speech  the  body  and  blood 

of  Christ  would  not  be  eaten But  the  bread  which  rei)re- 

sented  that  body  would  be  eaten ;  and  the  bread  then  had  to  be 
called  the  'Body,'  by  the  same  reason  and  by  the  same  rule  of 
language  that  the  lamb  was  called  the  'Passover,'  though  it  was 
not  the  Passover — just  in  the  same  way   and  by  the  same  rule  of 


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48 

language  that  when  we  look  at  the  marble  statue  of  Monhcig- 
neiir  Muurget,  we  say,  'This  is  Monseigneiir  Hourgel,'  though  it 
is  not  Monseigneiir  l5oiirget  at  all. 

"  (,?.)  1  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  because  every  Ro'ian 
Catholic  bishop  and  i)riest  is  forced  to  perjure  himself  every  time 
he  explains  a  text  of  the  Holy  Scri|)tures.  Yes  I  though  it  is  a 
very  big  and  hard  word,  it  is  the  truth.  From  the  day  that  you 
have  sworn,  when  you  were  ordained  a  priest,  to  interjjret  the 
Holy  Scriptures  only  according  to  the  unanimous  consent  of  the 
holy  fr.*.!iers,  you  have  seldom  i)reached  on  a  text  of  the  Scrij)- 
tiires  without  being  guilty  of  perjury.  For,  after  having  studied 
the  holy  fathers  wUh  some  attention,  1  am  ready  to  prove  to  you 
that  the  holy  fathers  have  been  i.nanimous  in  only  one  thing, 
which  was  to  differ  on  almost  every  text  of  the  Scriptures  on 
which  they  have  written.  Kor  instance,  you  cannot  say  that  the 
books  of  the  Maccabees  are  inspired  without  perjuring  yourself 
with  all  your  priests.  For  the  greatest  part  of  the  holy  fathers 
tell  you  that  these  books  are  not  ins|)ired.  You  cannot,  without 
perjuring  yourself,  say,  when  C'hrist  said  to  Peter,  'Thou  art 
Peter,  and  upon  this  rock  1  will  build  my  Church,'  it  signified 
that  Peter  was  meant  by  this  rock,  and  that  he  is  the  corner-stone 
of  the  Church;  for  you  know  very  well  (and  if  you  do  not  know 
it,  I  can  show  it  to  you)  that  St.  Augustine  and  many  other  holy 
fathers  jjositively  say  that  Christ  meant  Himself  when  he  said, 
'Upon  this  rock  I  will  build  my  Church.' 

"  (4.)   I  cannot  be  any  more  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  I  know  that 

AIRICUI.AR  CONI'I'.SSION   IS  A   IMAIlOIJCAr,  INSTITUTION. 

"  (5.)  I  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  I  have  seen  with 
my  eyes  the  inside  of  the  walls  of  your  church,  and  they  are  filled 
with  all  the  abominations  of  the  world.  Your  celibacy  is  of  dia- 
bolical institution.  Your  purgatory,  with  the  poor  souls  that 
burn  in  it,  and  are  saved  by  paying  you  so  many  dollars,  is  of 
iliabolical  institution.  Your  waters  of  I, a  Sallette  and  Notre 
Dame  De  I-ourdes,  which  are  sold  in  your  palace,  arc  of  diaboli- 
cal institution.  Your  forbidding  to  eat  meat  on  certain  days  is 
of  diabolical  institution.  Your  defence  of  reading  the  Holy 
Scriptures  is  of  diabolical  institution.  Your  infallible  Pope  and 
immaculate  Mother  of  God  are  of  diabolical  institution. 

"  (6.)  With  thk  iiki.i'  ov  God,  I  will  never  think  of  making 
my  peace  with  the  Church  of  Rome,  for  her  priests,  bishops  and 
popes  have  shed  the  blood  of  millions  of  martyrs,  from  John 
Huss  to  our  dear  brother  Hackett.  'On  your  Pope's  hands  I  see 
the  blood  of  the  75,000  Protestants  slaughtered  the  night  of  St. 
Bartholomew,  and  the  blood  of  half  a  million  of  Christians 
slaughtered  in  the  mountains  of  Piedmont. 

"  (7.)  I  will  never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  for  your  Church 
is  the  implacable  enemy  of  all  the  laws  of  God,  and  of  all  the 
rights,  liberties  and  privileges  of  men.  'Your  Church  has  de- 
graded and  brought  into  the  dust  and  the  mud  all  the  nations  she 


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has  ruled.'  I  might  give  you  many  other  reasons  why  I  would 
never  be  a  Roman  Catholic,  but  I  hope  these  are  sufficient  to 
show  to  my  dear  countrymen,  whom  you  so  cruelly  keep  in  the 
most  ignominious  ignorance  -^nr'  slavery,  that,  having  onck  ac- 
cepted Christ  for   my  o.- a    -aviour    and    His    Hoi.v    Word 

FOR  MY    ONLY    GUIDE,     I    CANNOT    BOW    DOWN    ANY    MORE    liLFORE 

YOUR  IDOLS  and  waeer-cods." 

C.  CHINIQUY. 


ICH 

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Ide- 

she 


A  ROMISH  BISHOP'S  TESTIMONY. 

The  Kankakee  Times  i)ul)lishes  the  following  communication 
from  a  member  of  the  Illinois  bar.  Though  perhaps  containing 
nothing  new  or  strange  to  those  who  have  studied  the  matter, 
the  statement  made  may  convince  such  Protestants  as  imagine 
the  Church  of  Rome  to  be  a  harmless  institution,  of  their  great 
error.  The  principles  of  the  Papal  hierarchy  remain  unchanged. 
The  wearer  of  the  Tiara  would  as  readily  depose  for  simple 
heresy  any  temporal  ruler  of  to-day,  as  his  predecessor,  six  cen- 
turies ago,  deposed  and  deprived  of  his  estates  Count  Richmond 
of  Toulouse,  for  a  like  crime.  Religious  liberty  is  both  hated 
and  dreaded  by  a  Church  which  claims  the  right  of  enforcing  its 
spiritual  decrees  by  the  assistance  of  the  secular  arm. 

In  one  of  your  past  issues  you  told  your  readers  that  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Chiniquy  had  gained  the  long  and  formidable  suit  instituted 
by  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  to  dispossess  him  and  his  people 
of  their  church  property.  Hut  you  have  not  yet  given  any  par- 
ticulars about  the  startling  revelations  the  bishop  had  to  make 
before  the  Court,  in  reference  to  the  still  existing  laws  of  the 
Church  of  Rome  against  those  whom  they  call  heretics. 
Nothing,  however,  is  more  important  for  every  one  than  to  know 
precisely  what  those  laws  are. 

As  I  was  present  when  the  Roman  Catholic  Hishop  Foley  of 
Chicago,  was  ordered  to  read  in  Latin  and  translate  into  English 
those  laws,  I  have  kept  a  correct  copy  of  them,  and  I  send  it  to 
you  with  a  request  to  publish  it. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Chiniquy  presented  the  works  of  St.  Thomas 
and  St.  Ligouri  to  the  Bishop,  re(iuesting  him  to  say,  under  oath, 
if  those  works  were  or  were  not  among  the  highest  theological 
authorities  in  the  Church  of  Rome  all  over  the  world.  After 
long  and  serious  opposition  on  the  part  of  the  Bishop  to  answer, 
the  Court  having  said  he  (the  Bishop)  was  bound  to  answer,  the 
Bishop  confessed  that  those  works  were  looked  upon  as  among 
the  highest  authorities,  and  that  they  are  taught  and  learned  in 
all  the  colleges  and  universities  of  the  Church  of  Rome  as  stand- 
ard works. 


5° 


Then  the  Bishop  was  requested  to  read  in  Latin  and  translate 
into  English  the  following  laws  and  fundamental  principles  of 
action  against  the  heretics,  as  explained  by  St.  Thomas  and 
Ligouri : 

1.  "An  excommunicated  man  is  deprived  of  all  civil  commu- 
nication with  the  faithful,  in  such  a  way  that,  if  he  is  not  tolera- 
ted, they  can  have  no  communication  with  him,  as  it  is  in  the 
following  verse :  'It  is  forbidden  to  kiss  him,  pray  with  him, 
salute  him,  to  eat  or  do  any  business  with  him.'  " — St.  Ligouri, 
vol.  9,  page  162. 

2.  "Though  heretics  must  not  be  tolerated  because  they  de- 
serve it,  we  must  bear  with  them  till,  by  a  second  admonition, 
they  may  be  brought  back  to  the  faith  of  the  Church.  But  those 
who,  after  a  second  admonition,  remain  obstinate  in  their  errors, 
must  not  only  be  excommunicated,  but  they  must  be  delivered  to 
the  secular  powers  to  be  exterminated. " 

3.  "Though  the  heretics  who  repent  n'ust  always  be  accepted 
to  penance  as  often  as  they  have  fallen,  they  must  not  in  conse- 
quence of  that,  always  be  permitted  to  enjoy  the  benefits  of  this 
life.  #  *  *  When  they  fall  again  they  are  admitted  to 
repent,  *  *  but  the  sentence  of  death  must  not  be  removed." 
— St.  Thomas,  vol.  4,  page  64. 

4.  "When  a  man  is  excommunicated  for  his  apostacy,  it 
follows  from  that  very  fact,  that  all  those  who  are  his  subjects 
are  released  from  the  oath  of  allegiance  by  which  they  are  bound 
to  obey  him." — St.  Thomas,  vol.  4,  page  94. 

The  next  document  of  the  Church  of  Rome  brought  before 
the  Court  was  the  act  of  the  Council  of  Lateran,  A.  D.  1215  : 

"We  excommunicate  and  anathematize  every  heresy  that  ex- 
alts itself  against  the  holy,  orthodox  and  Catholic  faith,  con- 
demning all  heretics,  by  whatever  name  they  may  be  known; 
for  though  their  faces  differ  they  are  tied  together  by  their  tails. 
Such  as  are  condemned  are  to  be  delivered  over  to  the  existing 
secular  powers,  to  receive  due  punishment.  If  laymen  their 
goods  must  be  confiscated:  If  priests,  they  shall  be  first  degra- 
ded from  their  respective  order,  and  their  property  applied  to 
the  use  of  the  church  in  which  they  have  officiated.  Secular 
powers  of  all  ranks  and  degrees  are  to  be  warned,  induced,  and 
if  necessary,  compelled  by  ecclesiastical  censure,  to  swear  that 
they  will  exert  themselves  to  the  utmost  in  the  defence  of  the 
faith  and  extirpate  all  heretics  denounced  by  the  Church  who 
shall  be  found  in  their  territories.  And  whenever  any  person 
shall  assume  government,  whether  it  be  spiritual  or  temporal,  he 
shall  be  bound  to  abide  by  this  decree. 

"If  any  temporal  lord,  having  been  admonished  and  re- 
quired by  the  Church,  shall  neglect  to  clear  his  territory  of 
heretical  depravity,  the  Metropolitan  and  the  Bishops  of  the 
province  shall  unite  in  excommunicating  him.  Should  he  re- 
main contumacious  a  whole  year,  the  fact  shall  be  signified  to  the 


5' 

Supreme    Pontiff       i 

oi  heretics  shal]  en,W  /h  """  '^'"^  ^'•oss  fo  L  ^;"^'^^f«'"th. 
the  same  privilege"  "^^^^  '"'"'^  '"^'uisencc  .u  t'  ""''"^''^'^^ 
the  Holy  Land      \v     ?  ^''''"'^^^  to  those  who       '  ^''^^^^^^ted  by 

dealings  whhhtet^Js'  T'*^''^  ^"■•^'^^"'  m  ^^^  ^^^  '^-'P  of 
or  encourage  them  '  i '  n",''  ^'^l^^^i^Hy  hZ\yt'' .""'>'  '^'''ve 
eligible  to  any  pu  ii  '^' '  '^''^  ''■•;'--ommuntued  H^T^;',  ^'^^^nd 
ness.  He  sh"ill  ,  .  ^''''-  ^^^  shall  nn/K  .  •  ''^'''11  "ot  be 
by  will  n:.1;;'  :;;^--^have  the  pov^  ^  bll^rh^h"'  "  ^  ^^•'^■ 
any  action  against^  ''">'  '"heritance    Tf.    u  ^"  P'*°Pe'ty 

against  him.  ^ShouldlT'-'""'  '^"^  •''nv  0,,^  ^^..^f^f .  "ot  bring 
force  norshall  any  e^use  b%'  ^'''^^'^  ^is  dec  sion  shin  ?  *'*'^^'°" 

CWrt^L-^of '^ottr^^^^  had  never 

pain  of  eternal  dl7"'''''^'^'''^^'veryt^^^^^^^^^  °f  liis 

»f  liberlv  Zf      ■  '=»<:'"nss  of  their  Chn^.i,  "'"''""'s  'o  know 


Stkphen   Moouk,  Attorney. 


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THE  JESUITS!    THE  GREATEST  ENEMIES  OF 
COMMON  SENSE  AND  TRUTH. 

"That  we  may  in  all  thin<^s  attain   the  truth,  that  we  may 
"  not  err  in  any  thing,  we   ought  ever  to  hold   as  a  general 
"principle,  that  what  I  see  white  I  believe  to  be  black,  if  the 
"superior  authorities  of  the  Church  define  it  to  be  so." — 
The  Constitution  of  the  Society  of  Jcsus^  by  Ignatius  Loyola. 

THE  JESUITS  ARE  THE  MOST  IMPLACABLE  ENEMIES 

OF  HUMAN  AND  CHRISTIAN  LIBERTY;  THEY 

WANT  TO  BRING  MAN  DOWN 

BELOW  THE  BRUTE. 

"  As  for  holy  obedience,  that  virtue  must  be  perfcrred  in  every 
"  point.  *  *  *  Let  every  one  persuade  himself,  that  he 
"who  lives  under  obedience  should  be' moved  and  directed, 
"  under  Divine  Providence,  by  his  superior,  just  as  if  he  were  a 
"corpse,  (perinde  ac  si  cadaver  esset)  which  allows  itself  to  be 
"  moved  and  led  in  every  direction." — 

The  Constitution  of  the  Society  of  fesus. 


THE  JESUIT  SOCIETY  IS  THE  MOST  IMPIOUS 
ENEMY  OF  THE  LAWS  OF  GOD. 

"  It  seems  good  to  us  in  the  Lord,  that  excepting  the  express 
"vow  by  which  the  society  is  bound  to  the  Pope  for  the  time 
"being,  and  the  three  other  essential  vows  of  poverty,  chastity 
"  and  obedience,  no  constitutions,  declarations,  or  any  order  of 
"living  can  involve  an  obligation  to  sin,  mortal  or  venial: 

"Unless  the  Superior  command  them  in  the  name  of  our 
"  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  or  in  the  virtue  of  holy  obedience,  which 
"  shall  be  done  in  those  cases  or  persons,  wherein  it  shall  be 
"judged  that  it  will  greatly  conduce  to  the  particular  good  of 
"each,  or  to  the  general  advantage,  and  instead  of  the  fear  of 
"  offense,  let  the  love  and  desire  of  all  perfection  succeed,  that 
"  the  greater  glory  and  praise  of  Christ  our  Creator  and  Lord 
•«  may  follow." — 

7 he  Constitution  of  the  Scciety  of  fesus. 


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FATHER  CHINIQUY. 
To  MCR.  LYNCH  ARCHBISHOP  OF  TORONTO. 

St.  Anne,  Kankakee  County,  Illinois  ) 
June  2  2,  1884.  f 

To  His  Lordship  Lynch,  ARCHnisHop  of  Toronto: 

Mv  Lord: — The  12th  inst.,  I  promised  to  answer  your  letter 
of  the  nth,  addressed  to  the  Rev.  Moderator  and  to  the  Minis- 
ters of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  I 
come  to-day,  to  fulfil  my  promise,  with  the  help  of  God. 

I  had  accused  your  church  to  believe  and  say  that  she  had  re- 
ceived from  God  the  power  to  kill  us  poor  heretics.  I  said  that 
if  you  did  not  slaughter  us,  to-day,  in  Canada  and  elsewhere,  it 
is  only  because  you  are  not  strong  enough  to  do  it.  I  said  also, 
that  where  the  Roman  Catholics  feel  strong  enough  they  do  not 
think  it  a  sin  to  beat,  stone,  or  kill  us  when  they  can  do  it  with- 
out any  danger  to  their  own  precious  lives. 

I  said  that  your  best  theologians  teach  that  heretics  do  not  de- 
serve to  live,  and  that  your  great  St.  Thomas  Aquinas,  whom 
your  church  has  lately  put  among  "the  Holy  Fathers,"  positively 
declares  that  one  of  the  most  sacred  rights  and  duties  of  your 
church  is  to  deliver  the  heretics  into  the  hands  of  the  secular 
powers  to  be  exterminated. 

As  I  expected,  you  Have  bravely  denied  what  I  said  on  that 
subject.  In  your  reply  you  complain  that  the  quotations  I  made 
of  St.  Thomas,  on  that  subject,  are  not  correct. 

Here  is  my  answer  to  your  denegations.  I  have  the  works  of 
St.  Thomas  just  now  on  my  table.  I  will  copy  word  for  word 
what  he  says  in  Latin  and  translate  it  into  plain  English,  respect- 
fully asking  your  lordship  to  tell  the  Canadian  people  whether 
or  not  my  translation  is  correct : 

"Quanquam  haeritici  tolerandi  non  sunt  ipso  illorum  demerito, 
usque  tamen  ad  secundam  correptionem  expectdndi  sunt  ut  ad 
sanam  repeant  Ecclesiasine  fidem.  Qui  vero,  post  secundam  cor- 
reptionem, in  suo  errore  obstinati  permanent,  non  modo  excom- 
municationis  sententi,  sed  etiam  stecularibus  princibus  exter- 
minandi  tradendi  sunt." 

TRANSLATION. 

♦'Though  heretics  must  not  be  tolerated  because  they  deserved 
it,  we  must  bear  with  them  till,  by  a  second  admonition,  they 
may  be  brought  back  to  the  faith  of  the  Church.  But  those  who, 
after  a  second  admonition,  remain  obstinate  in  their  errors,  must 
not  only  be  excommunicated,  but  they  must  be  delivered  to  the 
secular  power  to  be  exterminated."  (St.  Thomas  Aquinas,  4th 
v.,  page  90.) 

At  the  page  91,  he  says:  "Though  heretics  who  repent  must 
always  be  accepted  to  penance  as  often  as  they  have  fallen,  they 


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must  not,  in  consc<juence  of  that,  always  be  permitted  to  enjoy 
the  benefits  of  this  life.     .     .     .       When  they  fall  again  they  are 

admitted  to  repent But  the  sentence  of  death  must 

not  be  removed."     (St.  Thomas,  v.  4,  pfige  91.) 

Your  lordshij)  has  the  just  reputation  to  be  an  expert  man. 
You  then  know  that  in  such  solemn  questions  as  are  discussed  just 
now,  the  testimony  of  only  one  witness  does  not  suffice — I  will 
then  give  you  another  testimony  to  prove  the  unpalatable  truths 
which  I  proclaimed  in  the  presence  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Presbyterian  Church  of  Canada,  viz:  That  we  poor  heretics 
are  condemned  to  death,  and  are  declared  unworthy  to  live  side 
by  side  with  our  Roman  Catholic  neighbors.  That  testimony 
will,  no  doubt,  be  accepted  as  good  and  sufficient][by  the  people 
of  Canada,  if  not  by  you,  since  it  is  the  testimony  of  your  own  in- 
fallible church,  speaking  through  the  Council  of  the  Lateran, 
held  in  1215 : 

"We  e.xcommunicate  and  anathematize  every  heresy  that  exalts 
itself  against  the  holy  orthodox  and  Catholic  faith,  condemning 
all  heretics,  by  whatever  name  they  may  be  known — for  though 
their  faces  differ,  they  are  tied  together  by  their  tails.  Such*as 
are  condemned  are  to  be  delivered  over  to  the  existing  secular 
powers,  to  receive  due  punishment.  If  laymen  their  goods  must 
be  confiscated.  If  priests,  they  must  be  degraded  from  their  re- 
spective orders  and  their  property  applied  to  the  use  of  the 
church  in  which  they  officiated.  Secular  powers  of  all  ranks 
and  degrees  are  to  be  warned,  induced,  and  if  necessary,  com- 
pelled by  ecclesiastical  censures,  to  swear  that  they  will  exert 
themselves  to  the  utmost  in  the  defense  of  the  faith,  and  ex- 
tirpate all  heretics  denounced  by  the  church  who  shall  be  found 
in  their  territories.  And  whenever  any  person  shall  assume 
government,  whether  it  be  spiritual  or  temporal,  he  shall  be 
bound  to  abide  by  this  decree. 

"If  any  temporal  lord,  after  having  been  admonished  and  re- 
quired by  the  church,  shall  neglect  to  clear  his  territory  of  here- 
tical depravity,  the  Metropolitan  and  Bishop  of  the  province 
shall  unite  in  excommunicating  him.  Should  he  remain  con- 
tumacious a  whole  year,  the  fact  shall  be  signified  to  the 
Supreme  Pontiff,  who  shall  declare  his  vassals  released  from 
their  allegiance  from  that  time,  and  will  bestow  his  territory  on 
Catholics,  to  be  occupied  by  them,  on  the  condition  of  extermin- 
ating the  heretics  and  preserving  the  said  territory  in  the  faith. 

"Catholics,  who  shall  assume  the  cross  for  the  extermination 
of  heretics,  shall  enjoy  the  same  indulgences  and  be  protected 
by  the  same  privileges  as  are  granted  by  those  who  go  to  the 
help  of  the  Holy  Land.  We  decree  further,  that  all  who  may 
have  dealings  with  heretics,  and  especially  such  as  receive  and 
defend,  and  encourage  them,  shall  be  excommunicated.  He  shall 
not  be  eligible  to  any  public  office.  He  shall  not  be  admitted  as 
a  witness.     He  shall  neither  have  power  to  bequeath  his  property 


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by  will,  nor  to  succeed  to  any  inheritance.  He  shall  not  bring 
any  action  against  any  person,  but  any  one  can  bring  action 
against  him.  Should  he  be  a  judge  his  decision  shall  have  no 
force,  nor  shall  any  cause  be  brought  before  him.  Should  he  be 
an  advocate,  he  shall  not  be  allowed  to  plead.  Should  he  be  a 
lawyer,  no  instruments  made  by  him  shall  be  held  valid,  but  shall 
be  condemned  with  their  author. " 

I  could  give  you  thousands  of  other  infallible  documents  to 
show  the  exactness  of  what  I  said  of  the  savage,  anti-social,  anti- 
Christian,  and  bloody  laws  of  your  Church,  in  all  ages,  against 
the  heretics,  but  the  short  limits  of  a  letter  make  it  impossi- 
ble. Those  proofs  are  fully  given  in  my  book,  "  Fifty  Years  in 
the  Church  of  Rome,"  which  is  now  published.  I  suppose  you 
will  answer  me,  "Have  not  heretics  passed  such  bloody  laws?" 
Yes,  they  have  passed  such  cruel  laws;  but  they  have  borrowed 
them  from  you. 

When  those  nations  came  out  from  the  dark  dungeons  of 
Popery,  they  could  not  see  the  light,  at  first,  in  its  fulness  and 
in  all  its  beauty.  It  took  some  time  before  they  could  cure  them- 
selves from  the  putrid  leprosy  which  centuries  of  life  inside  the 
walls  of  the  modern  Babylon  had  engendered  everywhere. 
But  you  know  as  well  as  I  do  that  these  remnants  of  Popery  have 
been  repudiated  more  than  a  century  ago  by  all  the  Christian 
churches.  Every  year  since  it  has  been  my  privilege  to  be  a 
Presbyterian,  I  have  heard  a  constant  and  unanimious  protest 
against  those  laws  of  blood  and  persecutions.  They  are  kept  in 
our  records  only  as  a  memorandum  of  the  bottomless  abyss  into 
which,  the  people  were  living  when  submitted  to  the  Pope. 
But  you  know,  well,  my  lord,  that  all  those  laws  of  blood  and 
death  have  been  sanctioned  in  your  last  Council  of  the  Vatican 
in  your  Church.  It  was  declared,  then,  that  you  are  forever 
damned  if  you  have  any  doubts  about  the  rights  and  duty  of 
your  Church  to  punish  the  heretics  by  bodily  punishment. 

But,  my  lord,  let  us  forget,  for  a  moment,  the  numberless  and 
undeniable  proofs  which  I  might  bring  to  the  remembrance  of 
your  lordship,  to  make  you  blush  for  having  denied  what  I  said 
about  the  un-manly,  un-Christian  principles  which  regulate  the 
Roman  Catholic  Church  towards  the  Protestants,  when  you  have 
your  opportunity.  The  providence  of  God  has  just  put  me  in 
possession  of  a  fact  too  public  to  be  ignored  even  by  you. 

You  know  how  the  Roman  Catholics  of  Quebec  have  given 
the  lie,  with  a  vengeance  to  your  denials.  You  know  how  more 
than  2,000  good  Roman  Catholics  came  with  sticks  and  stones  to 
kill  me,  the  1 7th  of  this  month,  because  I  had  preached  in  a 
Presbyterian  Church  on  the  text,  "  What  must  I  do  to  have 
eternal  life?"  More  than  one  hundred  stones  struck  me,  and  if 
I  had  not  providentially  had  two  heavy  cloth  overcoats,  one  to 
protect  my  shoulders  and  the  other  put  around  my  head  to  weak- 
en the  force  and  weight  of  those   stones,  I   would   surely  have 


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been  killed  on  the  spot.  But  though  I  was  protected  by  those 
overcoats,  my  head  and  shoulders  are  still  as  a  jelly  and  cause 
me  great  suffering.  A  kind  friend,  Mr.  Zotique  l.efebvre,  B. 
C.  L.,  who  heroically  put  himself  between  my  would-be-mur- 
derers and  me,  to  protect  my  life  at  the  risk  of  his  own,  came 
out  from  the  broken  carriage  with  six  bleeding  wounds  on  his 
face. 

The  city  of  Quebec  is  known  to  be  the  most  Roman  Catholic 
city  in  America,  and  perhaps  in  the  whole  wotld,  without  except- 
ing Rome  itself.  Its  population  has  the  well-earned  reputation 
to  be  moral, peaceful,  respectable,  and  religious,  as  they  under- 
stand those  words  among  the  Roman  Catholics.  The  people  who 
stoned  me  were  not  a  gathering  of  a  low-bred  mob;  it  was  com- 
posed of  well-dressed  men,  many  with  gold  spectacles:  it  was 
not  composed  of  drunkards;  there  was  not  a  single  drunken  man 
seen  by  mc  there;  they  were  not  of  course,  what  is  called  "liberal 
Catholics,"  for  those  "liberal  Catholics,"  though  born  in  the 
Church  of  Rome,  have  a  supreme  contempt  for  the  dogmas, 
practices,  and  teachingsof  the  priests.  Those  "liberal  Catholics" 
who,  thanks  be  to  God,  are  fast  increasing,  are  only  nominally 
Catholics — they  remain  there  because  their  fathers  and  mothers 
were  so;  because  also,  they  want  to  attract  the  people  to  their 
stores,  sell  their  pills,  or  desire  to  be  elected  to  such  and  such 
offices  by  the  influence  of  the  priests.  They  laugh  at  your  mitre 
for  they  know  that  it  is  nothing  but  the  old  bonnets  of  the  priests 
of  Bacchus,  representing  tne  head  of  a  fish.  Those  liberal 
Catholics  are  disgusted  with  the  bloody  laws  and  practices 
of  the  Church  of  Rome ;  they  would  not  for  anything,  molest, 
insult,  or  maltreat  a  heretic.  Those  liberal  Catholics  arc  in  favor 
of  liberty  and  conscience.  But  the  clergy  hate  and  fear  them. 
Had  this  class  of  liberal  Catholics  been  numerous  in  Quebec,  I 
would  not  have  had  any  trouble.  But  Quebec  is,  with  a  very 
few  exceptions,  composed  of  true,  real,  sincere,  devoted  Catho- 
lics. They  believe  sincerely,  with  your  grand  St.  Thomas,  and 
with  your  Roman  Catholic  Church,  that  heretics  like  Chiniquy  , 
have  no  right  to  live ;  that  it  is  a  good  work  to  kill  them. 

This  riot  of  Quebec,  seen  with  the  light  of  the  teachings  of 
St.  Thomas,  the  Councils  of  Lateran,  Constance  and  the  Vatican, 
show  that  your  letter  to  the  General  Assembly  of  our  Presby- 
terian Church  is  one  of  the  greatest  blunders  that  your  lordship 
has  ever  made.  The  dust  that  you  wanted  to  throw  in  the  eyes 
of  my  Presbyterian  brethren  is  all  on  your  face,  to-day,  as  dark, 
hideous  spots.      Your  friends  sincerely  feel  for  your  misfortune. 

For,  my  lord,  there  is  a  voice  in  the  stones  thrown  at  me;  there 
is  a  voice  in  the  bruises  that  cover  my  shoulders  and  my 
head,  there  is  a  voice  also  in  the  blood  shed  by  the  friend  who 
saved  my  life  at  the  peril  of  his  own,  which  speaks  louder  and 
more  eloquently  than  you,  to  say  that  you  have   failed   in   your 


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attempt  to  defend  your  church  against  what  I  said  at  the  General 
Assembly. 

That  you  may  better  understand  this,  and  that  you  may  be  a 
little  more  modest  hereafter  on  that  subject,  I  send  you  by  the 
hands  of  the  Venerable  Secretary  of  our  General  Assembly, 
the  Reverend  Mr.  Reid,  D.  D.,  one  of  the  hundreds  of  stones 
which  wounded  me,  with  a  part  of  the  handkerchief  reddened 
with  the  blood  of  Mr.  Zoticjue  Lefebrve,  B.  C.  L.,  who  received 
six  wounds  on  his  face,  when  heroically  standing  by  me  in  that 
hour  of  supreme  danger  for  my  life.  Please  look  at  that  stone, 
look  at  that  blood  also;  they  will  teach  you  a  lesson  which  it  is 
quite  time  for  you  and  all  the  priests  to  learn.  They  will  tell 
you  that  your  Church  of  Rome  is  the  same  to-day  as  she  was 
when  she  slaughtered  the  hundreds  of  thousands  of  Piedmontese 
with  the  sword  of  France;  that  stone  and  that  blood  will  tell  you 
what  every  one  knows,  among  the  disciples  of  the  Gospel,  that 
your  church  of  to-day  is  the  very  same  church  which  planned 
the  massacres  of  St.  Bartholomew,  the  gunpowder  plot,  the  re- 
vocation of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  and  the  deaths  of  more  than  half 
a  million  of  French  Huguenots  on  their  way  to  exile.  That 
stone  and  that  blood  will  tell  you  that  your  church  to-day,  is  the 
same  as  she  was  when  she  lighted  the  five  thousand  auto-da-fes, 
where  ten  million  martyrs  lost  their  lives  in  all  the  great  cities 
of  Europe,  before  God  raised  the  German  giant  who  gave  it  the 
deadly  b!ow  you  know. 

Please,  my  lord,  put  that  stone  and  that  blood  in  one  of  the 
most  conspicuous  places  of  your  palace,  that  you  may  look  at 
them  when  the  devil  will  come  again  to  throw  you  into  some 
•_^nominious  and  inextricable  slough,  as  the  one  into  which  you 
fell  in  your  courageous  but  vain  attempt  to  refute  me.  When 
that  father  of  lies  will  try  again  to  make  use  of  your  pen  to  deny 
the  bloody  deeds  of  your  church,  you  will  tell  him,  "Get  thee 
hence,  Satan,  for  it  is  written  in  our  most  approved  book  of 
theology,  St.  Thomas,  that  'we  must  exterminate  all  the  heretics.' 
Get  thee  hence,  Satan;  for  you  will  not  any  more  to  induce  me  to 
call  old  Chiniquy  insane,  for  saying  that  our  church  is  bloody 
as  ever;  for  it  is  written  in  the  Council  of  Lateran  that  those 
who  arm  themselves  for  the  extermination  of  heretics  are  as 
blessed  by  God  as  those  who  went  formerly  to  the  rescue  of  the 
Holy  Land." 

Yes,  my  lord;  keep  that  stone  and  that  blood  before  your  eyes, 
and  when  I  or  somebody  else  will  again  warn  the  disciples  of 
the  Gospel  against  the  dangers  ahead  from  Rome  you  will  not 
compromise  hourself  any  more  by  writing  things  which  are  not 
only  against  all  the  records  of  history,  but  against  the  public 
teachings  of  all  your  popes,  your  councils  and  your  theologians. 

With  that  blood  before  your  eyes,  the  devil  will  lose  much  of 
his  power  over  you  and  be  forced  to  give   up  his  old  tactics  of 


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making  yon  deny,  deny,  deny,  the  most  evident   facts,   and   the 
most  unimpeachable  records  of  history. 

My  dear  Hishop  Lynch,  before  taking  leave  of  you  this  day, 
alb)w  me  to  ask  a  favor  from  your  lordship.  If  you  grant  it,  I 
will  retract  what  I  have  said  of  the  anti-social  and  anti-Christ- 
ian laws  and  practices  of  your  Church. 

Let  your  lordshij;  say  anathemas  to  the  Councils  of  Constance 
and  Lateran  for  the  decrees  of  banishment  and  death  they  pass- 
ed over  all  those  who  differed  in  religion  from  them.  Tell  us 
in  plain  and  good  English,  that  you  condemn  those  Councils  for 
the  burning  of  John  Huss,  and  the  blood  they  caused  to  be  shed 
all  over  Europe,  under  the  pretext  of  religion ;  tell  us  that  those 
Councils  were  the  greatest  enemies  of  the  (Jospel,  that  instead  of 
being  guided  by  the  spirit  of  (iod,  they  were  guided  by  the 
spirit  of  Satan,  when  they  caused  so  many  millions  of  men, 
women,  and  children  to  be  slaughtered  for  refusing  to  obey  the 
Pope. 

And  when  you  will  have  condemned  the  action  of  the  de- 
praved men  who  composed  those  Councils,  you  will  honestly 
and  bravely  declare  that  your  Thomas  Aquinas,  instead  of  being 
a  saint,  was  a  bloody  monster,  when  he  wrote  that  the  Church  of 
Chriot  is  to  deliver  the  heretics  to  the  secular  powers  to  be  exter- 
minated! 

Tell  us  also,  that  the  present  Pope  Leo  XI I L  ought  to  be  the 
object  of  the  execration  of  the  whole  world  for  having  lately 
ordered  that  the  bloody  monster's  theology  should  be  taught  in 
all  the  colleges,  academies,  seminaries,  and  universities  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  all  over  the  world,  as  the  best,  truest,  and 
most  reliable  exponent  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Church  of  Christ. 

If  you  grant  me  the  favor  I  ask,  we  will  believe  that  your 
lordship  was  honest  when  you  denied  what  I  said  of  the  savage, 
cruel  and  diabolical  laws  and  practices  of  the  Church'  of  Rome 
towards  the  heretics.  But  if  you  refuse  to  grant  my  request,  we 
will  believe  that  you  arc  still,  in  heart  and  will,  submitted  to 
those  laws  and  practices,  and  that  you  tried  to  deceive,  after 
having  deceived  yourself,  when  you  presented  your  bloodthirsty 
church  with  the  rose  colors  we  find  in  your  letter  to  the  General 
Assembly. 

In  my  next,  I  will  give  you  the  proofs  of  what  I  said  about 
the  idolatry  of  your  church,  and  with  the  help  of  God,  I  will 
refute  what  you  said  to  defend  her  practices. 

Truly  yonrs, 

C.  CHINIQUY. 


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1  AnW  e\^e  rendu  a  la  derniere 

^'  "'^*"1ve    nd  quia  cl-dessous. 


THmTV-THmO  IQITIOII. 
Its  Revelations  are  sensational  and  appalling. 


7176  priest,  tl7^  U/omap 

BY    FATHER    CHINIQUY. 

Author  of  ^'  Fi/ty   I'mrs  in  thf  Chi.rch  of  /fome,"  etc. 

Tae  work  is  conceded  by  the  pulpit  and  press  of  the  country  lo  be  the 
best,  authority  upon  tlie  confesKional.  Clergymen  of  all  denominations 
should  read  it,  and  advocate  its  being  read  bv  the  people. 

Legislators,  students,  teachers,  parents,  should  read  the  boolc.  Its 
author  has  done  good  serv  ice  in  the  cause  of  PnttestantiBni,  and  he  speaks 
from  a  personal  experience  in  the  workings  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church 
where  tie  held  higii  position. 

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The  Reasons  why  a  Qood  Boman  Catholic  cannot  t 
be  a  Good  Citizen  of  this  Bepublic. 

By  A.  J.  GROVER, 


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figures  which  they  will  do  well  to  reilect  upon.  The  national  policy  as  to 
slavery  almost  cost  the  life  of  tlie  republic.  There  is  ten  times  as  much 
dani|>er  to  our  free  institutions  from  Romanism  now,  that  there  was  from 
slavery  in  1851." 

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